Earlier this month, union carpenters of the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters (IKORCC) rolled up their sleeves to help build a new NIPSCO building at Schererville’s Tri Town Safety Village. Tri Town Safety Village is a “child-sized” town, complete with houses, roads, replicas of local businesses, and operational street lights and railroad crossings. This model […]

MERRILLVILLE — This week, NIPSCO celebrated the successful completion of a holiday giving campaign, resulting in more than $125,000 in monetary donations and hundreds of items for service-related agencies across the utility’s 30-county footprint. Employee-led initiatives included food and toy drives and fund-raising bake sales and gift wrapping – all aimed at helping families in

INDIANAPOLIS – Each year nonprofit arts organization Heartland Truly Moving Pictures honors select theatrically-released films with its Truly Moving Picture Award, a seal that signifies a film’s transformative power and appeal. “The Truly Moving Picture Award jury takes into consideration how every film could impact and engage its target audience,” said Tim Irwin, Heartland’s artistic director.

MICHIGAN CITY — In 2008, Bionic Prosthetics & Orthotics opened its doors with 2 employees and one location in Merrillville, Indiana. In the past 5 years, Bionic has expanded its services throughout Northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area. Offering customized patient care solutions and exemplary customer service with flexibility on servicing hospitals, nursing homes, providing

December 20th marked the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Studebaker plant in South Bend. The archivist at the Studebaker National Museum says the defunct company still has an impact on the community half a century later. Andy Beckman says institutions including Memorial Hospital of South Bend began with donations of Studebaker money or

On Wednesday, September 25 our community suffered a terrible loss with the death of Jake West, a La Porte High School football player. After it was publically announced that his death was due to a heart condition, the cardiology and sports medicine teams of Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital made a joint decision to

HAMMOND — U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., urged Purdue University Calumet graduates “to consider using your enhanced talents to make our region a better place to work and live.” Visclosky addressed more than 485 fall and summer graduates, their family members, friends, and university faculty and staff during Purdue Calumet December Commencement Exercises at the