MUNSTER — Community Hospital Home Health Services Nurse Johanne Janke has been named the 2014 Home Care and Hospice Nurse from the State of Indiana by the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and the Home Healthcare Nurses Association (HHNA). Janke’s nomination at the state level recognizes her qualities of compassion, clinical expertise

WEST LAFAYETTE — Applications for the Trask Innovation Fund are being accepted through Sept. 19 to eligible Purdue University inventors at all campuses who are working to advance Purdue technologies toward commercialization. Applications must describe commercially relevant work that can be performed over a six-month period that advances the development of a technology disclosed to

The TLC network’s television show “19 Kids and Counting,” which chronicles the life of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 19 children, filmed in Porter County. Cast and crew members dined in Chesterton, enjoyed a fishing adventure aboard Triplecatch Charters in Portage and enjoyed campsite activities at Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton. The

St. Mary Medical Center has announced Carolyn Croswell as the new Director of Human Resources. She served as the Chief Human Resources Officer at South Suburban College for several years and has also been successful as a Human Resources Consultant involving mergers, acquisitions and hospital turnaround initiatives. Katherine (Kathy) Radinovic is the new Director of

HAMMOND — Purdue University Calumet Chancellor Thomas L. Keon has joined Chris White, publisher of The Times Media Company, as co-chair of the One Region initiative. “I am eager to serve with Chris and other community and business leaders committed to making a difference in our region,” Keon said. “Through collaboration, One Region allows examination

Whiting Mayor Joe Stahura, John Haynes (Clerk-Treasurer), Stephanie Madison (co-founder), Kathleen Ulm (co-founder) and Angela Moore, Director of Marketing and Community Outreach at St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago, presented a donation of $17,700 to Tony Andello, director of the Cancer Resource Centre. For the past four years, the cofounders have coordinated Paint the Town