Town of Chesterton

Here’s something you’ve probably never thought about in your life: The final destination of the so-called “disposable” wipes promoted by their manufacturers as a “hygienic alternative to toilet paper.” Picture, if you will, a solid floor...

Chesterton Street Commissioner John Schnadenberg believes strongly in giving credit where credit is due. In this case, the credit goes to Assistant Town Engineer Matt Gavelek, who assumed the responsibility last summer for preparing the notoriously...

It’s a truism that $951,698 doesn’t go as far as it used to. That’s what the Chesterton Engineering Department had to work with, when the dust had settled from a stormwater bond issued late in 2021. It sounds like a lot of money—it genuinely...

Joe Wagner. In a room of 100 people, you couldn’t miss him. A big burly guy, grizzled, gravelly, and tattooed, with hands the size of pot roasts. What you can’t see—but spend just 10 minutes with Joe and you’ll surely get an inkling of...

Late this summer, Local 4600 of the Indiana Association of Fire Fighters, representing the career members of the Chesterton Fire Department, became the 100th chapter of Project Fire Buddies, a nonprofit whose mission is to “adopt” critically or...

A child’s world is so very small. It’s measured by the length of a summer afternoon, ends at the backyard fence, and is sustained by a parent’s touch. It needn’t be logical or intelligible. It need only be consistent, where the only...

If your child is currently enrolled in a Duneland School, you’ve probably already made the acquaintance at some point of one (or more) of the five officers assigned by the Chesterton Police Department to full-time duty as School Resource Officers...

It’s a truism among contractors: Turn some dirt or open a wall and you never know what you’ll find. Folks in Britain, to take an example, have been putting things on top of other things for two millennia, and builders scraping almost any surface...

No one will ever accuse Mark Hopkins—owner of Hopkins Ace Hardware in Downtown Chesterton—of thinking small. Or of speaking softly. Or of beating around the bush. More than four years ago, on July 7, 2020, Hopkins pitched a bold idea to the...

Chesterton Town Engineer Mark O’Dell is now a rare bird in the State of Indiana: One of the very few municipal employees—and even rarer, one of the very few municipal engineers—certified as a Master Road Builder through Purdue University’s...