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The Porter County Sheriff's Department will host a prescription medication dropoff held this Saturday April 30th from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM at the Porter County Sheriff's Dept. and also at the North Office in South Haven. Citizens are encouraged to drop...

Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana's ReStore celebrates its sixth year this month. ReStore, which is a donation center that accepts new and used bulding materials for resale, aids Habitat for Humanity with its goal of funding house builds....

Written by Michelle M. Stewart, principalMany exasperated parents come to my office and tell me that they don’t know what else they can do to change the behavior of their middle school age child. They share with me the depths of the deprivation...

Woodland Park Pre-school students will join Mayor Olga G. Velazquez and Councilperson Sue Lynch to celebrate Arbor Day, Friday, April 29th at 10:00am. The celebration will take place at the future Dog Park site in Woodland Park. There will be a tree...

Two public compost sites have opened for the season, providing Porter County residents with opportunities to collect nutrient rich material for their gardens and also drop off yard waste to be composted or mulched. Regular hours for the Valparaiso...

The City of Valparaiso and the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County invite residents to take advantage of getting compost loaded for free during International Compost Awareness Week. The city’s Public Works Department will be...

The days are getting longer and it is nice to wake up to sunshine and the sounds of birds rather than darkness and snow plows. In fact, high school softball is underway and as I have related before, I have the privilege to serve as the Coach of the...

All City of Portage offices will be closed Friday, April 22, 2011 in observance of Good Friday. Friday’s Sanitation and recycling routes will be collected on Saturday, April 23.

The Purdue University North Central now has three video telephones available for public use. The phones allow individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to make and receive calls and allow hearing individuals to place or receive calls with those who...

JobSource, Opportunity Enterprises’ Community Employment Division, will host an Adaptive Technology Center Open House at its Porter County location, 56 Valparaiso Street in Valparaiso, on Tuesday, April 26 from 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm. This event is...