Press Releases

Spend the weekend in Crown Point visiting the car cruise, attending Fourth Fridays, checking out the farmers market and more!  CAR CRUISE Beep, beep! The Car Cruise rolls into Bulldog Park at 4 p.m. this Thursday, Sept. 22!  Join us for a...

Maestro Troy Webdell and South Shore Orchestra are back at the Memorial Opera House for the 2022 Holiday Pops! A Valparaiso tradition, featuring holiday music from around the world as well as classical and contemporary Christmas favorites. Come sing...

The Don Quijote Restaurante Benefit Dinner, held on August 14, brought together nearly one hundred donors to help raise funds for the VNA Meals on Wheels of Porter County program, a division of VNA Hospice NWI. The event was a tremendous success and...

Lauren Stearns, RN, from Northwest Health – Porter was recently honored with the DAISY Award for exceptional nursing. Stearns, a NICU nurse, was nominated by the father of newborn twins who wrote that she deserved to be honored with this...

The U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recognized Saint Paul Catholic School as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon School! Saint Paul was recognized as one of 24 exemplary private schools among the 297 schools honored as National Blue Ribbon Schools...

Chesterton High School seniors, Saanya Agarwal, Ian Condes and Connor Engels, have been named Commended Students in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation...

Today, Central Elementary School was named a “2022 National Blue Ribbon School” by the U.S. Department of Education. Central is one of just 10 Indiana schools to earn this distinction in 2022. “We’re extremely honored and grateful to earn the...

Valparaiso University has received a $202,151 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to purchase a Raman spectroscopy microscope. This advanced piece of equipment will be a vital asset in a variety of research projects spanning multiple...

The Leadership Institute and Society of Innovators at Purdue Northwest (PNW) have announced the Fall 2022 Lunch and Lead Speaker Series. Lunch and Lead is a virtual speaker series designed to help community and business leaders develop knowledge and...

Ten candidates were nominated for the 2022 CHS Football homecoming royalty. The candidates are: Henry Bell, son of John and Jen Bell of Chesterton, is active in Boy Scouts (Troop 908) and is currently working on an Eagle Scout project at Ameling...