Michigan City High School and Horizon Bank held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning at Horizon's newest facility, located inside the high school itself. Aptly named the Wolves Branch after the school's mascot, the branch is located in a...
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A Northwest Indiana Life in the Spotlight: Earl Ward
When Earl Ward first heard about growing food in a mostly-closed aquatic system by using fish waste for nutrients, "aquaponics" wasn't even a word. In fact even as I wrote this, a squiggly red line indicated that as far as Microsoft Word is...
Riding the Buzz: Dogfish Head Re-launches in NWI
The event may have been held behind camouflaged bookshelf-doors in Stack’s “secret library” private room, but there’s no keeping news this big a secret from beer lovers: Dogfish Head beer is back. The respected craft brewing company was...
A Northwest Indiana Life in the Spotlight: Lora Larkin
As the sub-zero temperatures shifted back to the arctic where they belong, I sat down with Lora Larkin, owner of Pay One Price Photography, and a 100-lb Mastiff named Max who hasn't figured out he isn't a lap dog yet. Besides the puppy, Larkin's...
A Northwest Indiana Life in the Spotlight: Serena Sutliff
Driving down Porter Avenue in Chesterton, you might see an old-fashioned mansion with the middle school behind it and a neighborhood of houses across the street. Against those surroundings, the brick mansion may seem out of place, which is funny...
Fortune Favors Indiana Beverage as MillerCoors Prepares to Launch New Brand
From the glasses already on the tables to the associates standing by to pour them for you, it was clear from the beginning that MillerCoors knows they’re onto something big with their newest product, Fortune. That’s part of why, more than a month...
A Northwest Indiana Life in the Spotlight: Paul “Crazy Legs” Stofko
As a man who’s made it his business to keep people active, one could say Paul “Crazy Legs” Stofko teaches by example; with everything he’s involved in, it’s hard to believe he still has the energy to train for “ultra” runs himself. We...
It’s V-Day for Beer Lovers as Veteran Beer Company Launches in NWI
All hands were on deck for Indiana Beverage’s celebration for the launch of Veteran Beer Company products in Northwest Indiana on Tuesday, December 3rd. Held at Langel’s Pizzeria in Highland, the event heralded the invasion into the region of...