MERRILLVILLE – Centier Bank has announced a 44 percent increase in its third quarter revenue to $72 million. President and CEO Mike Schrage said the bank has an active residential mortgage market in the quarter and that lower loan delinquencies helped the bank’s bottom line. Centier has assets of $2.13 billion. Schrage said Centier expects […]
SOUTH BEND – James Seitz has been named president of 1st Source Bank. Most recently he was executive vice president and was responsible for consumer and electronic banking, managing the regional presidents in Indiana and Michigan and consumer lending and mortgage, electronic and mobile banking, branch administration, deposit operations and corporate-wide marketing. He joined 1st
LAPORTE – First Trust Credit Union has broken ground on an expansion of its LaPorte office on J Street. The office will double in size from 1,700 square feet to 3,125 square feet. The project includes a new façade, additional office space, a larger lobby, an additional drive-through lane, safety deposit boxes and public restrooms.
MICHIGAN CITY – Demolition work is set to begin at the former Dunes Plaza on U.S. 20 in Michigan City to make room for construction of a Kohl’s department store. Demolition of a farmer Kmart store and other buildings will be directed by Haas and Associates of Michigan City. Work to tear down the buildings
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MICHIGAN CITY – First Trust Credit Union has named Kim Kniola as president and CEO, effective Jan. 1. She has been with First Trust for 29 years and replaces Ronald Budzinski, who headed the credit union for 27 years. He is retiring at the end of the year. Kniola is a graduate of Ball State
MUNSTER – For the second year in a row, Community Hospital’s cardiac program has been named among Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care and Cardiac Surgery. The rankings are in “American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2013: Healthgrades Report to the Nation.” In the report, Community Hospital was rated best hospital in Northwest Indiana for
MUNSTER – American Savings FSB has named Brian Specht as vice president of lending and credit manager. Specht has more than 20 years of banking experience. President Michael Mellon said, “We are excited to add Brian to our lending team. He’ll add new energy to our Lending Center. I expect many good things – for
MUNSTER – Joel Gorelick, president and chief administrative officer of Peoples Bank, is retiring from the bank. He joined Peoples in 1983 as vice president for commercial lending and went on to develop the bank’s commercial line which today accounts for 65 percent of the bank’s loan portfolio. “I was born and raised in the
CROWN POINT – Dr. Frederick R. Klepsch is the recipient of this year’s Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point’s St. Raphael Award, which recognizes physicians who have improved patient care through the nurse-doctor relationship. Klepsch is an orthopedic surgeon who has been with the hospital for 32 years. “I try to approach medicine and to work
HAMMOND – The Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana has named Tara Kristoff as its new flight director. She will work as a flight instructor, guiding students through the hands-on missions that show science, technology, math and engineering in action. “I’m passionate about science, and I look forward to instilling that passion in kids, too,”
