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...
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CFD Local 4600 joins the Project Fire Buddies network
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...
Chesterton Police Department to place its sixth School Resource Officer in the Duneland Schools
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...
Berglund Construction of Chesterton adds archeology to its list of accomplishments
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...
Chesterton Park Department celebrates completion of pond enhancement project at Coffee Creek Park
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 earns Master Road Builder certification
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...
Chamber supports Duneland Garden Club with donation in recognition of its work to make and keep Downtown Chesterton beautiful
The Duneland Chamber of Commerce is delighted to announce a $1,000 donation to the Duneland Garden Club, for its labors—very nearly throughout the year—to make and keep Downtown Chesterton beautiful. In spring, the Duneland Garden Club landscapes...
Ribbon cut on the CPD’s new station house
It had all the appearances of a casual remark made at the end of the Town Council’s Jan. 24, 2022, meeting, and no one could have predicted then just how pointed, how purely intentional, Member Sharon Darnell was in the uttering of it. “I think...
Chesterton Utility Lab Chief Leah Leimbacher is certified as Class IV Wastewater Operator
It’s one of the luxuries of living in a developed nation in the 21st century, that we needn’t spare a thought when flushing the toilet, taking a shower, or doing a load of laundry. Had we any reason to think about it at all—as Chicagoans did in...
For Early Voting in the Town of Chesterton use the POOL ENTRANCE at former Chesterton Middle School
The Duneland YMCA Healthy Living Campus—in the former Chesterton Middle School, 651 W. Morgan Ave., Chesterton—will be hosting Early Voting this fall. Use DOOR 11 or—as it’s more commonly known—the POOL ENTRANCE, on the SOUTH side of the...