Chesterton

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By KEVIN NEVERS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DEC. 21, 2001, IN THE CHESTERTON TRIBUNE It’s 1968, and my father has just manhandled a Scotch pine through the front door, banged it into the living room, and with Clark Griswold’s finesse—but none of his...

It’s not everyday that you get to sit down with a cancer survivor, a military veteran, a change-maker in the community, or a thriving high school student and get a look into what it’s like to live in their shoes. By sitting down with the members...

By KEVIN NEVERS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DEC. 24, 2002, IN THE CHESTERTON TRIBUNE My favorite scene in just about my favorite Yule movie, “A Christmas Story,” is the one set in Goldblatt’s department in downtown Hohman, Ind., the Depression-era...

Boy Scout Kane Darnell—a member of Troop 908—has completed his Eagle Scout project by building and installing a trio of benches as sturdy as they are handsome. Two of the benches have been placed at Coffee Creek Park and the third one at Dogwood...

Think of an Olympic swimming pool, 164 feet in length, 82 feet in width, and 9 feet deep, filled with approximately 660,000 gallons of clean, clear, chlorinated water. Now imagine 1,442 Olympic swimming pools, laid end to end—basically a concrete...

Katie Hess and Alexis Dines have created a captivating children's book about the Indiana Dunes called “A Day At The Dunes.” Hess, an eight-year teacher at Westchester Middle School in Duneland, and Dines, a marketing designer, share a deep...

Sgt. Tony Alfaro—a 20-year veteran of the Chesterton Police Department’s Patrol Division—will be leaving the street early in 2025 to begin his new assignment as a School Resource Officer (SRO) at Liberty Intermediate/Middle School. If you’ve...

The Town of Chesterton presented 21 of its municipal employees with longevity awards at the annual Christmas Party on Saturday, Dec. 7. These 21 employees represent 340 combined years of experience and institutional knowledge: 30 YEARS JAMIE COPOLLO,...