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Ellen Kapitan will serve as Valparaiso City Council president in 2025. (Philip Potempa/for Post-Tribune)

Reorganized Valparaiso City Council officers includes female leadership

January 17, 2025 at 5:40 p.m.

The Valparaiso City Council began the first meeting of the new year with new leadership positions and liaison appointments, including naming Ellen Kapitan as city council president and Emilie Hunt...

The wreckage of the 2004 Buick LeSabre driven by Peggy Potempa during her Jan. 5, 2005 car accident shows the extent of automobile damage following the near-fatal head-on collision. A police investigation found it was the other driver, a 19-year-old man, who was at fault for the cause of the accident. (Phil Potempa/Post-Tribune)

From the Farm: January marks two decades since Mom’s car accident survival

January 17, 2025 at 4:12 p.m.

Sipping and savoring Mom’s ham and bean soup recipe has taken on a new and symbolic meaning since a fateful date 20 years ago this month in January 2005. It...

Lead singer Christine Mikulskis, who also plays guitar, leads Rosie and The Rivets, a Chicago-based rock band performing one show Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, of favorite rock and soul smash hits from the 1960s along with contemporary music with a vintage twist. (Blue Chip Casino/provided)

Of Notoriety: Rosie and Rivets free Blue Chip concert and MLK art celebration among weekend highlights

January 16, 2025 at 2:39 p.m.

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A 1923 downtown Gary, Indiana streetscape captured on a vintage postcard depicts the five-story brick Gary Theatre along Broadway Avenue. (Calumet Heritage Area/provided)

Of Notoriety: Gary History Friday lecture event revisits downtown of yesteryear

January 15, 2025 at 3:58 p.m.

At a Christmas party our friends the Scamerhorns hosted in 1983, the subject of the Robert Hall clothing store, a retail anchor along Broadway in downtown Gary, resulted in a...

Peggy Potempa, mother of columnist Philip Potempa, stands by a billboard display for singer Anita Bryant’s namesake theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in July 1991. (Philip Potempa/for Post-Tribune)

From the Farm: Passing of Florida orange juice commercial queen Anita Bryant a closing chapter

January 10, 2025 at 4:37 p.m.

Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first public figure interviews as a young reporter.

Members of Chicago’s Second City improv team competed against the cast members of the new national Broadway tour of the musical “Shucked” in a corn husking competition on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, to welcome the Tony Award-winning stage comedy to Chicago for a Jan. 2025 Windy City premiere. (Philip Potempa/for Post-Tribune)

Of Notoriety: Corn-fed humor has more than just rural appeal for audiences

January 8, 2025 at 3:46 p.m.

I grew up in a farm family who loved the country-flavored comedy of the popular CBS television variety show “Hee Haw,” still considered one of the longest-running series in television...

Dozens of remaining sandhill cranes scour the fields around the Potempa farm in the early morning hours looking for bits of grains and insects to devour for energy during the cold month of Jan. 2025 in Northwest Indiana. Most sandhill cranes make a fall stop in Northwest Indiana while migrating to Florida and Texas for the winter. (Philip Potempa/for Post-Tribune)

From the Farm: Farm fowl fare better in Northwest Indiana without foul winters

January 3, 2025 at 4:26 p.m.

A post on my Phil’s From the Farm Facebook fan page about the still abundant population of sandhill cranes hanging around our farm and throughout the area attracted reader attention...

Hard Rock Northern Indiana hosts free live music on weekends and the opportunity to stroll more than 170 unique music-theme memorabilia and rare artifacts at the Gary gaming property. (Hard Rock Northern Indiana/provided)

Of Notoriety: Free music at Hard Rock Northern Indiana, wine sips to east, art to the west

January 2, 2025 at 12:03 p.m.

Entertainment news around the region: Free music at Hard Rock Northern Indiana, wine sips to east, art to the west

Amy Carter, 57, departs after a repose service for her mother, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. (Associated Press photo/Brynn Anderson)

Of Notoriety: President Jimmy Carter’s farmer quality and faith-filled spirit never left him

December 31, 2024 at 3:50 p.m.

I’ve always said President Jimmy Carter was my first U.S. President. Since I was born in 1970, I suppose technically, President Richard Nixon should be the name with this distinction...

Kristi Chervanek, community recovery coordinator for the city of Valparaiso, addressed the Valparaiso City Council at the Dec. 9, 2024, meeting asking for financial support for a new website design for $23,248. (Philip Potempa/for Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso Council members approve $23,000 for PACT new website

December 29, 2024 at 1:35 p.m.

The Valparaiso City Council cleared the path with a unanimous vote to direct a request for $23,248 for approval by the Valparaiso Board of Works allowing Kristi Chervanek, community recovery...

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