Paige Pope

From great tragedy came a tremendous outpouring of compassion. When 6-year-old Nathan Woessner fell into a sinkhole at Indiana Dunes National Park for roughly four hours on Friday, July 12th, the community was deeply stricken. I myself felt a strong...

For Betsy Kohn, the name of the game is positive communication and lots of it. As Director of Communications for Michigan City Area Schools, Kohn keeps busy connecting with others and promoting the successes of education in the area. Her dedication...

Although the Fourth of July has passed, the parades continue in Northwest Indiana. On Saturday, July 6, Michigan City hosted their 58th Annual BIG Parade in continuation with the Michigan City Summer Festival. The parade’s name certainly does it...

Dancing gypsies, flipping acrobats, blaring sirens, colorful clowns, and a never-ending chorus of music. No, this was not some menagerie or 1970s music video. This was the 67th Annual La Porte Jaycees' 4th of July Parade. The parade is one of the...

Fox Park is an iconic gathering place in La Porte County. The park is a place for everything from celebrations, events, live performances, to baseball games. The spacious park located across from Clear Lake has been a place to spend a warm summer...

Michigan City High School will be welcoming home one of its very own this fall. Wendel McCollum, a graduate and former resident of Michigan City, will be walking back through his old high school’s doors in a very new role as principal. McCollum is...

 On Tuesday, June 25, the Unity Foundation of La Porte County hosted its 2013 Scholarship & Award Celebration. The celebration, held at Heston Hills Banquet & Conference Center, honored 126 of La Porte County’s outstanding students and...

La Porte went through a time warp this past weekend. Our modern town was transported back to a day when the nation was divided, and the main newspaper headlines covered disastrous battles. Civil War Days took place at the La Porte County Historical...

Every Saturday morning from May to October downtown La Porte becomes a bustling market of shoppers searching for the best banana bread or the sweetest jar of fruit preserves. La Porte’s Farmer’s Market was just that on the morning of Saturday,...

The annual Sacred Heart Polish Fest kicked off Friday, June 21st . The afternoon may have been cloudy with storms, but by 6:00 the weather was clear, and the dedicated crowd came ready to celebrate our town’s Polish heritage with food, games, and...