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...
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Duneland Garden Club celebrates the 100th anniversary of the bandstand in Thomas Centennial Park with a fresh coat of paint
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...
Chesterton Town Engineer Mark O’Dell earns Master Road Builder certification
Chesterton Town Engineer Mark O’Dell is now a rare bird in the State of Indiana: One of the very few municipal employees—and even rarer, one of the very few municipal engineers—certified as a Master Road Builder through Purdue University’s...
Chamber supports Duneland Garden Club with donation in recognition of its work to make and keep Downtown Chesterton beautiful
The Duneland Chamber of Commerce is delighted to announce a $1,000 donation to the Duneland Garden Club, for its labors—very nearly throughout the year—to make and keep Downtown Chesterton beautiful. In spring, the Duneland Garden Club landscapes...
Ribbon cut on the CPD’s new station house
It had all the appearances of a casual remark made at the end of the Town Council’s Jan. 24, 2022, meeting, and no one could have predicted then just how pointed, how purely intentional, Member Sharon Darnell was in the uttering of it. “I think...
Chesterton Utility Lab Chief Leah Leimbacher is certified as Class IV Wastewater Operator
It’s one of the luxuries of living in a developed nation in the 21st century, that we needn’t spare a thought when flushing the toilet, taking a shower, or doing a load of laundry. Had we any reason to think about it at all—as Chicagoans did in...
For Early Voting in the Town of Chesterton use the POOL ENTRANCE at former Chesterton Middle School
The Duneland YMCA Healthy Living Campus—in the former Chesterton Middle School, 651 W. Morgan Ave., Chesterton—will be hosting Early Voting this fall. Use DOOR 11 or—as it’s more commonly known—the POOL ENTRANCE, on the SOUTH side of the...
External demo underway as old CMS is transformed into YMCA Healthy Living Campus
External demolition is underway at the old Chesterton Middle School (and before that the old Chesterton High School), as work continues on the construction of the Duneland Family YMCA’s Healthy Living Campus. Yesterday morning, Monday, Sept. 30, an...
Chesterton Town Council gets first look at tentative drawings of new Downtown public parking lots
When they’re completed, the two new public parking lots on Grant Ave. and East Indiana Ave. will provide approximately 100 new spaces in Downtown Chesterton. Assistant Town Engineer Matt Gavelek took the Town Council on a virtual tour of those two...
Chesterton Town Council eyeing remodel of town hall meeting room and fire station improvements
Once upon a time the most notable furnishing in the Chesterton town hall’s meeting room was a long wooden bench looking remarkably like a church pew, salvaged years earlier from the New York Central’s passenger depot. That bench was typically...