Joe Wagner. In a room of 100 people, you couldn’t miss him. A big burly guy, grizzled, gravelly, and tattooed, with hands the size of pot roasts. What you can’t see—but spend just 10 minutes with Joe and you’ll surely get an inkling of...

Costumes, candy, and Halloween spirit were in the air in Downtown Chesterton on the evening of Friday, October 25. The Duneland Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual trick-or-treat event, blocking off a couple of streets to make the event even...

A child’s world is so very small. It’s measured by the length of a summer afternoon, ends at the backyard fence, and is sustained by a parent’s touch. It needn’t be logical or intelligible. It need only be consistent, where the only...

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...