Sam Malkowski

Angela Leimer owes her resume and prolific life experiences to her community. Her eagerness to give back to the people and organizations that supported her has brought Angela to a career in which she is paying her good fortune forward. Through the...

On Saturday Night, the Duneland Family YMCA's Dancing Like the Stars fundraiser brought the "70s" vibe back to Northwest Indiana to celebrate peace and love with the Duneland YMCA. “I think the theme is going to set the tone for tonight,” said...

Porter-Starke Services' second annual "Overcoming Adversity Together" community conversation featured keynote speaker Edward Tick Ph. D., author of War and the Soul. His book and his Monday morning lecture discuss the ways active-duty transforms a...

Marketing sold Melissa Huffman on something much bigger than skater shoes or a hybrid car: it gave her personality an outlet through which to promote the people and places she cares about. What Melissa has done with her career in marketing is...

The new Dworkin Student Activities Center at Purdue University Northwest’s Westville campus hosted this season’s Economic Briefing by Anthony Sindone and Eugene Matzat on October 25th. The briefing, put on by PNW, the Greater La Porte Chamber of...

The friends and family of Jacob’s Ladder are becoming veteran crime solvers in their mission to make the world a better place. For the second year in a row they gathered at the Sand Creek Country Club to solve a murder, share a meal, and raise...

Mum’s the Word is the worst kept secret in the Calumet Area. The annual Friends of Hospice fundraiser for the Hospice of the Calumet Area grows every year despite the humble nature of its members and a name that implies discrepancy. Maybe it is the...

Brickie Fest went back to its roots for its fifth annual reunion of Hobart High School alumni. Graduating classes from as far back as 1964 gathered in the football field of their childhoods, the nationally famous Brickie Bowl. The Hobart High School...

Strack and Van Til’s latest contribution to the community could be heard before it was seen. The drum of a score of hammers vibrated vehicles as they drove passed on 41. Those that looked for the sound found a crowd of people building walls in a...

Todd Willis began working in the mental health industry to treat the problems most of us are still unwilling to talk about. As Director of Wellness and Education at Porter-Starke Services, it is his job to get out into the community and teach us...