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Chamber members and others learn about area businesses Feb 12 at the annual Love Your Business Vendor Fair, sponsored by the chambers of commerces in Highland, Griffith, Dyer and Munster at the Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in Munster.

Four Chambers of commerce host annual vendor fair

May 12, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.

Synergy was in full swing last week at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts when four local Chambers of Commerce hosted their seventh annual Love Your Business Vendor Fair....

Mary Jo Hopkins (center) credits her positive rehabilitation efforts to St. Mary Medical Center's Cardiac Rehab department, where nurses Cindy Batz (left) and Deborah Brink work.

Heart patients, caregivers gather at St. Mary Medical Center

May 23, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

HOBART — Among the heart patients, caregivers and others gathered Wednesday for the Hearts of Hope program at St. Mary Medical Center was Mary Jo Hopkins of Hobart, who as...

Andrean theater students win accolades

May 23, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

MERRILLVILLE — Andrean Theatre Company has had a banner year, winning accolades at a state competition and selected to represent Indiana at a national festival in Nebraska in June. Andrean...

Cass Casmir of Hammond restored this 1920s race car, which may have been involved in competition at the former Roby Speedway, as the advertisements on its body are for local companies in business at that time.

Historians, locals recall long-vanished Roby Speedway

May 23, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

HAMMOND — A racetrack near the Indiana/Illinois state line that once drew thousands of spectators in the early days of auto racing has largely faded from memory, but its history...

Mary Harris-Brooks of Four Sistas Fashion works at her sewing machine during the Make a Difference In Your Community event in Gary.

Event aims to ‘Make a Difference’ in Gary

May 23, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

GARY — Renee Patikas believes in the axiom that one event can make a change in a town or city. To that end, she coordinated, Make a Difference In Your...

Maggie Sorg (left), of Portage, visits with Stella while Humane Society of Northwest Indiana director Betty Clayton holds the 3-month-old puppy. Sorg is fostering the English bulldog.

Emergency funding going to the dogs

June 16, 2018 at 2:38 a.m.

MILLER — The Humane Society of Northwest Indiana knows how important it is to save for a rainy day. A few years ago, an adult dog with a serious medical...

Musician Thomas Matecki (at piano) and his group welcome visitors to the recent Jazz Jam Invitational at the Paul Henry Gallery in downtown Hammond.

Former Hammond hardware store now a growing gallery

May 23, 2019 at 7:08 a.m.

HAMMOND – When Dave Mueller turned the former downtown Mueller Hardware Store into an art gallery a few years ago, he also had ideas to expand on that new venture....

Barbara McKean, of Valparaiso, and Wendy McLaurin, of Gary, take part in the recent Caregivers Day Off event at Avalon Springs Health Campus in Valparaiso.

A day to care for caregivers

May 23, 2019 at 7:08 a.m.

VALPARAISO – While many aspects of health care have made headlines lately, there is one topic that many believe doesn't seem to get much attention – caregiving. For various reasons,...

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