RENSSELAER – St. Joseph College recently held a high tunnel construction workshop to demonstrate the process of building a passive solar greenhouse that extends the growing season for warm and cool-season crops. The effort was part of St. Joseph’s recently developed Hoophouse Farming Eduventure, a start-up operation that was created as the result of the […]
MICHIGAN CITY – Jewel/Osco has announced that it will close its supermarket in Michigan City by Oct. 8. At the same time, the company said its pharmacy was closing immediately. The closing will put 120 people out of work. The store opened in 1988. Karen May, a spokeswoman for Jewel/Osco said the decision to close
GARY – The U.S. Postal Service has named Bernice Grant as chief executive of the Indiana District and district manager for the Greater Indiana District. Grant, a Gary native, will be responsible for 13,000 employees at more than 670 post offices in Indiana. Those employees are responsible for delivering and processing 2.5 million items. She
SOUTH BEND – Gibson will hold its fourth annual Risk Management Forum starting at 8 a.m. (EST) on Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Hilton Garden Inn in South Bend. The forum will focus on Cyber Risk and panelists include Jason Glasgow of Travelers Insurance; Craig Sroda of Pinnacle Group; Carrie Raver of Barnes & Thornburg;
WANATAH – The Pinney Purdue Field Day at the Pinney Agricultural Center near Wanatah will be held starting at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22. The session will include discussion on corn, soybeans, diseases, forage and the drought. During lunch, Dr. Karen Plaut, director of the Purdue Ag Research Farms, will speak. For information, call
PORTAGE – The Northwest Indiana Economic Development District board meets at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 17, to discuss projects to be included in the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. The meeting will be at the NIRPC/Forum Office, 6100 Southport Road. The Northwest Indiana Economic Development District board is a not-for-profit organization that works to obtain grant
MERRILLVILLE – Centier Bank has announced its net income for the second quarter was $5.4 million, up from $2.7 million last year. The bank said the increase was because of improved loan delinquencies and lower loan losses. Centier has $2.16 billion in assets at the close of business on June 30, with $1.7 billion of
PITTSBURGH – U.S. Steel reported earnings of $101 million in the second quarter, down from $222 million one year ago. While the company reported a profit, it said earnings fell because of challenging economic conditions. The company reported its steel shipments were down 1 percent from a year ago, with shipments remaining flat to customers
MERRILLVILLE – NiSource Inc. has announced second quarter earnings were up 73 percent. As a result, the parent company for NIPSCO, reported a profit of $69.4 million, up from $40.2 million one year ago. Earnings per share were 25 cents in the quarter, up from 14 cents in the same quarter one year ago. NiSource
WHITING – The next phase of construction at the BP refinery in Whiting is expected to be completed by the end of 2013. To complete the project, BP said it will shut down part of the refinery in the fourth quarter of this year to reconfigure three of the crude units. At the same time,
