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Porter County Sheriff David Lain held a press conference February 7, 2011, to announce the retirement of Chief Deputy Doug Snider, and also to announce new administrative appointments. Sheriff Lain announced that his new Chief Deputy will be Steve...

Purdue Extension's expertise in helping military families is a key ingredient in President Obama's new initiative to increase support to families of deployed military members. Purdue University was selected to coordinate a program that brings...

The Portage Police Department works hard to protect and serve the Portage community. The department consists of 61 officers, with 12 reserves. The reserves are made up of community members, truck drivers, electricians, Portage school staff, and more,...

The Portage Fire Department is requesting your help!  Due to the unusually high amounts of snowfall, your fire fighters have been locating and digging out fire hydrants in the city. The City of Portage has 785 public owner hydrants and another 244...

The Stone Ave construction is making progress. The road portion, curb to curb, is done, except for the surface stretching from Willowcreek Road to Willow Creek. The offsite storm sewer is finished. IAWC has Dyer Construction installing the water main...

The next Mayor’s Night Out will be on Thursday, February 10, 2010 beginning at 6:00 pm at Kyle Elementary School, 2701 Hamstrom Road. This month’s topic will focus on the Higher Education Learning Center. All city departments will have...

The "Blizzard of 2011" hit Northwest Indiana with a fierceness to be reckoned with and dumped anywhere from 14 to 18 inches of snow in the area. As cities and towns dug out Wednesday into Thursday, the City of Portage was one of those communities...

Porter County Sheriff David Lain will be holding a press conference on Monday February 7th at 1:00 PM in the Sheriff’s Dept. Training Room in regards to administrative staff changes and the retirement of Chief Doug Snider. Chief Doug Snider will be...

The Porter County Career and Technical Center students in the Machine Trade and Electronic classes have been working on a wind/solar project, where the students would try and mimic, on a smaller scale, some of the wind and solar projects put on by...

Reading is good for the mind.  The Portage Township YMCA will be holding a Scholastic Book Fair February 7, 8, 9, and 10, in the YMCA lobby.  The fair will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Feb. 7 and 9, and...