While it’s still a week away, Northern Indiana is getting into the Halloween spirit early this weekend with tons of fun opportunities to collect candy, show off your costume, and step into a thrilling world of frights! Take a look at our list of 10...
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...
The extraordinary ladies of the Duneland Garden Club have traded in their green thumbs for (probably) paint-stained trousers and sweatshirts, to give the bandstand in Thomas Centennial Park a (much-needed) fresh coat of paint. With paint and supplies...
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...
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...
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...
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...