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WEST LAFAYETTE — Maybe 2020 won’t be such a bad year after all.
WEST LAFAYETTE — Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle.
WEST LAFAYETTE — What if paint could cool off a building enough to not need air conditioning?
MERRILLVILLE — Northern Indiana Public Service Company plans to add 900 megawatts to Indiana with the Dunns Bridge I, Dunns Bridge II and Cavalry Solar Energy Centers as part of the company’s long-term generation strategy.
RENSSELAER — Despite hurdling a couple of obstacles over the past two months, the Rensselaer Central School Corporation has reached its fall break with no disruptions.
NORTHWEST INDIANA — More than 36,000 Coho salmon were recently stocked in multiple rivers and streams in northern Indiana last week.
MERRILLVILLE — Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource Inc., has announced that it will bring an additional 900 megawatts to Indiana with the Dunns Bridge I, Dunns Bridge II and Cavalry Solar Energy Centers as part of the company’s long-term generation strategy.
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging.
RENSSELAER — COVID has creeped into the Rensselaer Central High School for the first time.
Cities, counties say law would have imposed an unfunded mandate
MONTICELLO — A contractor had to be rescued Saturday morning from the top of a nearly 350-foot-tall wind turbine after he suffered a medical emergency while working on a piece of equipment.
A look at the amendment language, proposed rates, and arguments for and against
INDIANAPOLIS – Financial aid professionals from all across Indiana will be volunteering to help college-bound students and their families open the door to financial aid during College Goal Sunday. The event is set for 2 p.m. EDT Oct. 25.
RENSSELAER — The sentencing hearing for Joseph Carmen Borgia III has been rescheduled for Friday, Oct. 30 at 9 a.m., CST, in the Jasper County Courthouse.
DeMOTTE — At his weekly press conference, Gov. Eric Holcomb extended his mask mandate through the month of October as COVID cases are on the rise across the state, including Jasper County.
DEMOTTE — At his weekly press conference, Gov. Eric Holcomb extended his mask mandate through the month of October as COVID cases are on the rise across the state, including Jasper County. The DeMotte Christian schools had their first instance of the coronavirus the week of Oct. 5, with the decision to close both the grade schools and the high school as a precaution.
WEST LAFAYETTE — The Indiana Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at Purdue University, has received a $2.8 million grant from NASA to support student and faculty learning projects.
Recommendations for family gatherings released by state; test positivity rate climbs again
Piatt County already has 1,681 votes cast
VALPARAISO — Attorneys for the Jasper Newton Foundation, Teri Hardin, Robert Monfort and his law office, and Monfort's former attorney, Vincent Antaki, gathered at the Porter County Courthouse on Friday to proceed on a number of motions that have been in process for several months.
WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue will on Oct. 14 mark the 25th anniversary of the Purdue Bell Tower.
WEST LAFAYETTE — Indiana AgrAbility, hosted at Purdue University, and the Indiana chapter of the Farmer Veteran Coalition invite military veterans to join them for the Veteran Farmer Workshop and Indiana AgVets Update.
RENSSELAER — Mark Zwartynski made his pitch. Now he hopes it connects with those who currently make decisions at Saint Joseph’s College.
IDAVILLE — A White County woman was killed Tuesday when the transport bus in which she was a passenger collided with a semi-tractor trailer along US 24 on the western edge of Idaville.
JASPER COUNTY — A near-accident at County Road 900 West near Bunkum Road in Rensselaer led to the arrest of a Rensselaer man this week.
Casino revenues off 30% from last fiscal year; lottery sales down 5.8%
PORTER COUNTY — Porter County Judge Mary Harper and the parties involved in a lawsuit filed by the Jasper Newton Foundation in August 2018 have been busy throughout the summer with attorneys changing for the defendants, sanctions against former Judge Robert Monfort and his attorney and a new defendant added to the mix.
RANTOUL — Pleasant Acres Elementary has been awarded $2,900 to support healthy eating and physical activity initiatives, as a part the Fuel Up to Play 60 program, which encourages students to eat healthy, be active and implement positive changes in their schools and communities.
I’m not sure how to do this. I’ve never done it before — say good-bye to a newspaper that is closing.
Living in the Washington D.C. bubble, I have heard a lot of rumors that never make the national news.
Due to the COVID 19 pandemic people’s lives have been rather stressful. Since my wife works intensively as one of the first responders at Carle Hospital, the whole family felt we really needed to take a break and escape temporarily from this unusual work and life situation to regenerate ourselves.
RANTOUL — J.W. Eater coach Ryan Birch called Danville Northridge’s starting pitcher “lights out.”
SPRINGFIELD – A friend who is an old newspaperman contacted me the other day and wanted to know what I thought of the local newspaper no longer endorsing political candidates.
RANTOUL — A village loan committee said it won’t consider a local company’s zero percent loan request until it cleans up its property and pays past-due utility bills owed to the village.
RANTOUL — Only incumbents, except for village clerk, had picked up nominating petitions to run for Rantoul village office as of Monday morning to run in the April 6 consolidated election.
FISHER — The Fisher school board approved its fiscal 2021 budget following a public hearing which no one attended.
ROYAL — The Prairieview-Ogden school board approved its FY21 budget that is $292,118 in the black.
PAXTON — A 33-year-old Paxton man remains in the Ford County jail in lieu of $250,000 bond on sexual assault charges involving children.
RANTOUL — Bridget Rogers no doubt was glad Rantoul received a heavy downpour of rain this summer. It likely helped to steer her and her husband, Ariel, co-owners of Shear Excellence Salon, away from the wrong building, where they originally hoped to expand their business.
RANTOUL — When Rantoul resident Wilbur “Bill” Wallis started throwing Frisbees with his brother back in the late ‘60s, he noticed on the back of the Frisbee the words, “Invent games.”
RANTOUL — Police are searching for whomever fired multiple shots that struck a vehicle during the weekend.
