Nancy Coltun Webster

Purdue Northwest plans bioscience building

May 13, 2019 at 8:54 a.m.

The state legislature has opened its purse to provide $35.1 million for a new bioscience building to benefit the nursing and biology programs at the Purdue Northwest Hammond campus. The...

Margaret Catania, left, of the Alliance for the Great Lakes talks with Ben Shorofsky of the Delta Institute at the Downtown Gary-Emerson Neighborhood Spotlight Quality of Life Report Celebration at ArtHouse on April 20, 2017. More than 100 people attended the event.

Gary Spotlight group sets plans for downtown

May 13, 2019 at 8:53 a.m.

More than 100 people gathered for the Gary Downtown-Emerson Neighborhood Spotlight "Quality of Life Report" celebration, which marks the beginning of its implementation phase after more than a year of...

An artist's rendering of the exterior of the Mascot Hall of Fame.

Whiting raising funds for wild, wacky Mascot Hall of Fame

May 13, 2019 at 8:51 a.m.

Whiting — the city with the wit to create Pierogi Fest and a parade featuring entries such as the Twirling Babushka Brigade — is betting tourists will love its silly...

Purdue Northwest child care center to close

May 13, 2019 at 8:50 a.m.

Purdue Northwest will close the doors of the Charlotte R. Riley Child Center on June 30, ending 30 years of early childhood education services offered for the children of students,...

Jan Tichy, an assistant professor of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the lead artist and educator with the Heat Light Water Project in Gary, is setting up a display of 15 works of lighted art created by Thea Bowman students with the help of his SAIC students.

Gary park project shines on ‘inner light’

May 13, 2019 at 8:49 a.m.

Borman Square Park in Gary was a flurry of activity recently as students and their teachers from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago assembled a display of lighted...

Sari Brosh Rechav, vice president of education for SpaceIL and Yonatan Winetraub, co-founder, toured the Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana recently. SpaceIL, one of five finalists in the Google Lunar XPRIZE international challenge to place an unmanned craft on the moon, aims to build a Challenger center in Israel.

Israeli team has eye on prize in moon visit competition

May 13, 2019 at 8:48 a.m.

With a $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE at the finish line, a literal race to the moon is on, and members of team SpaceIL made a pit stop at the...

Gary McKay talks about the quick response trauma kits in his office recently at Munster Community Hospital.

Trauma training highlights improved medical gear

May 13, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

Lori Postma, a SWAT nurse, learned how to apply a tourniquet and drag a severely injured 190-pound police officer out of harm's way to a nearby vehicle as part of...

Andy Finick operates the amateur radio equipment at Community Hospital in Munster.

Amateur radio operators keep emergency communication lines open at area hospitals

May 13, 2019 at 8:46 a.m.

Andy Finick walks up the stairs and opens the door onto a roof at Franciscan Health in Hammond. He points up to a higher roof at several antennae that would...

A scene at the Vietnam Veterans Monument features flowers in barrel of an M-16. The vignette is one of nine dedicated to remembering veterans and their sacrifices at the Edward R. Robinson Community Veterans Memorial in Munster, Ind.

Edward P. Robinson Community Veterans Memorial both tribute and history lesson

May 12, 2019 at 6:21 p.m.

Dean Larson and Joe Williamson amble along the brick walkway on a sunny February morning at the Edward P. Robinson Community Veterans Memorial Park in Munster. As they walk, they...

Linda Strain, with the LaPorte County Master Gardeners, chooses a cauliflower stress ball as one of the freebies during a Urban Farming and Community Gardens food expo held at the County Line Orchard in Hobart on March 8, 2017.

Expo presents range of food topics

May 13, 2019 at 8:43 a.m.

High winds may have caused a power failure Wednesday, but didn't drain a single watt of energy from the Northwest Indiana Food Council's Food Expo and Discussion 2017 at County...

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