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...
Town Of Chesterton
Pond enhancement project completed at Coffee Creek Park
Chesterton Park Superintendent Tyler McLead was delighted to announce at the Town Council’s meeting Monday night, Sept. 23, that the pond enhancement project at Coffee Creek Park has been completed. “It’s a good project for Coffee Creek...
Central Services technicians keep the Chesterton Street Department moving forward
The next time you watch the Chesterton Street Department’s grapple truck lifting and removing your brush—or you happen to notice in your rear-view one of the Chesterton Police Department’s two dozen squad cars—or you see a Park Department...
Demolition of old Chesterton Police Department station house underway
The full-scale demolition of the old Chesterton Police Department station house at the northeast corner of Broadway and North Eighth Street began this morning, Monday, Sept. 23, as subcontractor Indiana Earth took a claw-equipped excavator to the...
Korean War veteran Andy Michel recalls his service after Honor Flight to Washington DC
The U.S. military calls it the “tooth-to-tail” ratio: The number of rear-echelon troops (or tail) it takes to support a combat soldier (or tooth). In World War II, only 19 percent of soldiers (or Marines or sailors or airmen) ever saw the front...
Chesterton Fire Department’s C Crew successfully completes annual agility test
Firefighters must not only be light on their feet but sure of foot Ladders, staircases, and roofs. Attics, basements, and crawlspaces. Every scene is potentially an obstacle course which firefighters must navigate and negotiate, all the while wearing...
Demo of the old Chesterton Police Department station house underway as old-timers reminisce
The Chesterton Police Commission’s meeting on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 12, hadn’t yet been called to order and its members were hobnobbing about the CPD’s shiny new station house—in whose spacious training room they were now sitting—when...
Chesterton Police Department officers making themselves at home in their new station house
It must’ve seemed to the officers of the Chesterton Police Department like moving from a dilapidated shack at the edge of town into a cozy bungalow in the suburbs. The old CPD station house was—and had been for many years—cramped, dingy, drab,...
Duneland Family YMCA breaks ground on Healthy Living Campus at the former Chesterton High and Middle schools
On Tuesday, Sept. 10th, the bleachers at the old Chesterton High School’s Troy Field were filled for one final event: The ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Duneland Family YMCA Healthy Living Campus, 651 W. Morgan Ave., Chesterton. This...
Volunteers place 2977 flags at the Chesterton High School stadium in honor of the victims of the Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks
The annual 9/11 memorial at Chesterton High School (CHS)—long loved and appreciated by the community—continues this year, with the planting of 2,977 small flags in the grassy area in front of the athletic stadium on South 11th Street. Each flag...