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Fifth graders Kylie Tratta, left, and Carly Zuklin explain to the teaching staff how to use iMovie to create videos.

Highland teachers go back to class for #learning

May 13, 2019 at 2:10 a.m.

Fifth-graders, poised and prepared, took over the teaching duties this week to explain the intimidating new world of social media and apps to Highland's elementary teachers. Beginning with the Twitter...

Robert F. Kennedy rides on 21st Avenue in Gary on his way to the Memorial Auditorium on April 15, 1968. He is riding with Gary Mayor Richard G. Hatcher and East Chicago Mayor John B. Nicosia.

Top pols made Indiana stops in ’68 presidential primary

May 13, 2019 at 2:08 a.m.

Editor's note: On Dec.11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in the Union. Lake, Porter and Newton counties originally were one, but on Jan. 28, 1836, Porter County was created....

Workers at U.S. Steel in Gary show American flag in 1917.

Parades built patriotism before World War I

May 13, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.

Editor's note: On Dec.11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in the Union. Lake, Porter and Newton counties originally were one, but on Jan. 28, 1836, Porter County was created....

Pocahontas, Tesla highlight local entries in today’s National History Day state contest

May 13, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.

The last eyewitnesses to the initial meeting between Pocahontas and English settlers of Jamestown died about four centuries ago. Faced with recreating that encounter in a dramatic performance, Highland Christian...

Lake Central to be symphony’s rain location

May 13, 2019 at 2:03 a.m.

Lake Central School Corp. and the town of Schererville have entered into an agreement to make the high school auditorium a rain location for the town's summer performance by the...

Chicago photoplay organist Jay Warren, left, and John Katris, owner of the Hoosier Theatre, discuss plans for the upcoming feature presentation of Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" on at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 24.

Whiting’s Hoosier Theatre opened in silent-film era

May 13, 2019 at 2:04 a.m.

While Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Co. was touting homes wired for electricity would chase away the worries of a cloudy, dark day, Whiting residents were awaiting the Feb. 15,...

Hearing set for Highland Schools bond issue

May 13, 2019 at 2:03 a.m.

The School Town of Highland is expected to decide on an estimated $3.8 million bond issue following a hearing at its board meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the administration...

Audience members listen to Guy Gruters, who spent five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, during the third Annual Northwest Indiana Veterans Action Council Breakfast at The Patrician on Friday.

Former POW helps raise funds for veterans home project

May 13, 2019 at 2:02 a.m.

A Vietnam veteran who was a prisoner of war for more than five years told a gathering of veterans and others Friday to be proud of their service. Guy D....

Shirley Ann Brewer lets it be known that there's more to the shots than just immunization as Dr. Kenneth Washington administers the vaccine in Carver School in 1955.

Area children treated with Salk polio vaccine in 1955

May 13, 2019 at 2:01 a.m.

Editor's note: On Dec.11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in the Union. Lake, Porter and Newton counties originally were one, but on Jan. 28, 1836, Porter County was created....

Long Beach resident Ray Westort plays Reveille on a German bugle he obtained during his time serving overseas in WWII.

World War II POW recalls months of captivity

May 13, 2019 at 2:01 a.m.

Five months in the largest prisoner of war camp in Western Germany — Stalag XI B in Fallingbostel — couldn't dim the light in Ray Westort's smile when he talks...

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