This past weekend four Westchester Robotics Club teams competed in a tournament at Kingsford Heights Elementary School. Two of the four teams qualified for the state competition in March. Each of the teams did well at the competition bringing...

Former Chesterton High School graduate and author Jil-Lyn (Schaudt) Tedford recently visited Bailly Elementary School to share her book, There’s a Boodle in My Basement with students.  Tedford wrote and illustrated the book along with her oldest...

Westchester Intermediate School’s (WIS) Spell Bowl team, competed in the Academic Spell Bowl at Washington Township against 12 Porter County schools yesterday. The WIS team not only won their division; they received the highest score out of...

On Tuesday, November 5th, 25 students from St. Mary Catholic Community School in Crown Point’s Environmental Club traveled to Sunset Hills Farm.  The students ranged from 3rd graders to 6th graders and were led by Principal Tom Ruiz and...

St. Mary Catholic Community School in Crown Point held their annual Spaghetti Supper on Wednesday. Despite the freezing temperatures, once again the masses came, they saw, and they ate spaghetti to support St. Mary’s School! “It was great to see...

Merrillville Intermediate School (MIS) announces the names of its honor roll students for the first trimester. Sixth graders earning all A’s are Cesar Beltran-Flores, Aiden R. Chavez, Evangeline R. Escobedo, Alex G. Farina, Abbeygail A. Garcia,...

Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana is pleased to announce it has received a $10,000 grant from the TC Energy Foundation. These funds will support the stabilization of a Habitat partner family and their community in Lake County. “Habitat for...

The students of St Mary Catholic Community School held their annual Veteran’s Day Program this Friday. Local veterans were welcomed to the school with thank you cards made by the students, before being led by a procession of Girl and Boy Scouts...

The Thanksgiving holiday can be a joyous time of year, but it can also be stressful. That’s especially true for families of the 340 thousand Hoosiers currently serving as Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers. The Alzheimer’s Association Greater...

All Hoosier students are taught Indiana History as part of their fourth-grade curriculum. Isabella Leurck, a fourth-grader at St. Mary Catholic Community School in Crown Point, took her learning one step further as she gathered ideas to answer the...