Sam Malkowski

The June 2016 luncheon of the Crossroads Chamber of Commerce brought 182 business for the Lake County economic update and recent successes. Guest Speaker Karen Lauerman gave them a behind the scenes look at what her organization is all about....

Counselors to America’s Small Business, or SCORE, hosted a collaborative panel at the Sand Creek Country Club in Chesterton in an effort to inform innovative citizens on how to start and maintain a business. Called Brewing Business, the discussion...

The St. John Chamber of Commerce makes a point to meet once a month to go over business, network amongst themselves, and learn about what new initiatives are available for giving back to the community. For their June 2016 gathering they invited guest...

The fifth habit of highly effective people is to seek first to understand, then to be understood. This is one of the codes that Michael Roque lives his life by, and the one that has brought him success through his book “Build Your Game.” He spent...

You know it is going to be a good day when you hear Ric Federighi’s voice booming over a loudspeaker. Everyone from one side of the Stone Lake beach to the tree sheltered opposite end heard what they were all waiting for: the final day of the Maple...

Ask any citizen of LaPorte what we are all proud of and they will name a lake. We have nine different lakes to watch the sun set over, we are renovating our shores, and once a year we host one of the biggest races in the Formula One Powerboat Tour:...

The LaPorte YMCA Summer Adventure Camp provides a season of competition, creativity, and learning. Day one was the first of June and it could not come soon enough for the return campers. Despite a light drizzle, the kids were outside enjoying the...

With a Master’s degree in Business Administration and two decades worth of marketing experience, Professor John “Jack” Schoenfelder could have been a very rich man with the kind of snazzy, sky-scraping office most of us only see on Mad Men....

For the second year in a row, the LaPorte County Family YMCA made fundraising and exercise look easy at their Dancing Like the Stars event. It took months of planning, weeks of training, and a year of anticipation to create a performance that sought...

The May 26th groundbreaking of the Cline Avenue Project marked day one of the Bridge’s resurrection. Like a Phoenix it would rise from the dust, stone, and rubble of its remains to become a stronger, faster feat of engineering. “Today is truly...