In celebration of Manufacturer’s Day and the past year’s economic development activities in Starke County, the Starke County Economic Development Foundation (SCEDF) will host its third annual “Prospectus and Achievements Night” on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at the Knox Middle School beginning at 5:30 pm CDT.  The public is invited to attend this event.  Several […]

FRENCH LICK –  The wind blew harder and from a different direction in Saturday’s second round of the LPGA Legends Championship.  Some of the pin positions at the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort were more difficult, too. “Add in that Pete Dye designed this place, and that raised it another notch,’’ added Canadian

MUNSTER — The ballroom of The Center for Visual and Preforming Arts was filled on Wednesday night as more than 200 hospitality industry professionals came together to celebrate exemplary customer service at the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority’s annual ROSE (Recognition of Service Excellence) Awards Dinner. Close to 100 nominations for the annual ROSE

GARY — The City of Gary and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) teamed up today to commemorate the city’s historic streetcar rail line with the unveiling of a historic marker at the corner of 5th Avenue and Broadway, on the very thoroughfare where streetcars used to travel during the first half of the 20th

Porter Emergency Medical Services will offer an Emergency Medical Technician – Basic Course (EMT-B) beginning Nov. 4, 2013 through May 28, 2014. The class will be presented on Mondays, Wednesdays and an occasional Saturday, from 5 to 9 p.m. at EMS Station 2, 2206 LaPorte Ave. in Valparaiso. The cost of the course is $900,

CROWN POINT — Cynthia Fodness, an instructor at the University of Saint Francis Crown Point, has been named Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly’s outstanding volunteer. A clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatry and mental health, she has volunteered hours to help patients at St. Clare Health Clinic in Crown Point. Dedicating Thursday afternoons to counseling, she

The twenty-first annual Elvis FANtasy Fest will take place the weekend of October 11-13 at the Woodland Park Community Building, 2100 Willowcreek Road in Portage, Indiana.  This year’s Elvis Fantasy Fest is themed “My Happiness” in honor of the record Elvis paid to cut at the famed SUN Studio in 1953.  EFF celebrates the happiness Elvis brought