Stefan Barkow

On January 1st, 2012 at the age of 28, La Porte native Blair Milo was sworn in as one of the town's youngest mayors and only its second-ever female mayor. In August of that year, she stopped by Ideas in Motion Media to tell us how life in office was...

On February 13th at the Bonner Senior Center in Portage, Portage Township Trustee Brendan Clancy held the annual State of the Township address to cover all the terrific accomplishments that have taken place in the township over the past year. At the...

She's a people-person, so it wasn't hard at all to talk to marketing director Heather Kelly. In fact the most difficult part was convincing her that—with all the other great staff at the facility—she was the one we wanted to talk to that morning....

Michigan City High School and Horizon Bank held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning at Horizon's newest facility, located inside the high school itself. Aptly named the Wolves Branch after the school's mascot, the branch is located in a...

When Earl Ward first heard about growing food in a mostly-closed aquatic system by using fish waste for nutrients, "aquaponics" wasn't even a word. In fact even as I wrote this, a squiggly red line indicated that as far as Microsoft Word is...

The event may have been held behind camouflaged bookshelf-doors in Stack’s “secret library” private room, but there’s no keeping news this big a secret from beer lovers: Dogfish Head beer is back. The respected craft brewing company was...

As the sub-zero temperatures shifted back to the arctic where they belong, I sat down with Lora Larkin, owner of Pay One Price Photography, and a 100-lb Mastiff named Max who hasn't figured out he isn't a lap dog yet. Besides the puppy, Larkin's...

If you ask Walter Lenckos, superintendent of Porter County Parks and Recreation, about his job, he will tell you he's in the quality of life business. "It's my job to provide fun for the people of Porter County," he said. As superintendent, Lenckos...

A joyous noise was heard ringing out from the Nativity of Our Savior Catholic School in Portage on the evening of December 20th; it was time once more for the school’s annual Christmas program. Each year sees a new theme, and this year the program...

Lance Corporal Randal Johnson was on hand in dress blues this morning at the La Porte YMCA on 901 Michigan Avenue. Johnson was there to present La Porte County YMCA CEO Cindy Berchem with a certificate of appreciation for the organization’s...