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Softball: NWI sectionals will feature some heavyweight battles in opening round
Nothing like getting that tough matchup out of the way right off the bat in the postseason. After last week’s 29th annual IHSAA softball tournament draw, three of the region’s top sectionals will have the consensus two best teams in the bracket facing off in …
Boys track: Hanover Central has hefty lead with two events to go as meet suspended
HEBRON — With 14 of the 16 events complete, Hanover coach Steve Foulds and his Wildcats boys track team had a mathematical lock on the Porter County Conference championship. Hanover has a score of 146 with Morgan Township (74) and Hebron (66) a distant second …
Planners: Illiana Expressway will close only two north-south crossroads
Only two north-south roads now will be closed for the proposed Illiana Expressway. Monday, planners of the Illiana Corridor announced they have reduced the number of expected north-south road closures in Indiana from five to two in an alternative for Lake County residents. The highway …
Tree cutting upsets councilman
CROWN POINT — Northern Indiana Public Service Co. has contract crews going through the city cutting down trees in residents’ yards. City Councilman Robert Clemons, R-2nd, said residents are being paid for the tree, and a new tree is promised to be planted, but not …
Softball: No letdown for Crown Point in win over Griffith
GRIFFITH — Crown Point’s softball team could have experienced a letdown after clinching the Duneland Conference title in Thursday’s win over Chesterton. No dice. Coach Ginger Britton’s pregame talk, freshman Miranda Elish’s magnificent arm, and the bats of Rachael Honaker and Mandey Shrader, weren’t about …
Softball: Crown Point takes DAC crown
CHESTERTON — One brilliant pitching performance in the middle of softball’s most precarious situation helped Crown Point clinch the DAC championship with a 5-1 win over Chesterton (18-3, 11-3). “It’s nice,” Crown Point (15-3, 12-2) coach Ginger Britton said of the conference title, “but I …
City bans parking on West Street
CROWN POINT — The Board of Public Works and Safety on May 8 approved the recommendation of City Engineer Tris Miles to forbid parking on both sides of North Street from Main Street to Hoffman Street. The board approved the recommendation unanimously. Miles said the …
Compromise may solve Hermits Lake sewer problem
CROWN POINT — For decades the Lake County Commissioners have wanted to stop running a sanitary sewer plant in Hermits Lake. An agreement between the City of Crown Point and Lake County is getting close. They have signed a Memorandum of Agreement as of May …
City wants to serve alcohol at Sportsplex
CROWN POINT — The city Parks Department is asking for approval of the City Council to be allowed to sell alcoholic beverages at the Sportsplex. The sales would be restricted to the adult softball fields at the northwest end of the park land. City employees …
Business sues Crown Point, city inspector
CROWN POINT — The City of Crown Point and city inspector Keith Anderson and wife Jeanne, and their company, Commercial Heating & Cooling, Inc., are being sued by EDCO Environmental Services, Inc. The city and Commerical Heating and Cooling are facing 84 separate counts in …
Boys track: Valparaiso wins DAC meet
VALPARAISO — A close defeat at last year’s Duneland Athletic Conference meet and a regular-season dual-meet loss to Crown Point became a distant memory for Valparaiso on May 8, as the Vikings captured the DAC championship. “All of our coaches were sitting up in the …
Girls track: LaPorte’s Elena Lancioni has big day; LC wins sixth straight DAC title
CROWN POINT — Elena Lancioni was in a world of her own in the Duneland Athletic Conference girls track meet Tuesday. The LaPorte junior ran away from the field in both the 1,600 and 3,200 runs to capture the running event MVP award. “You have …
Commentary: Andrew Steele: It’s all about Indy
Governor Mike Pence, apparently reluctantly, signed a bill last week reforming Marion County — and therefore Indianapolis — government in a way that gives the mayor firmer control over the budget and finances but also eliminates four at-large seats on the City-County Council. Those seats …
Almanac: This week in south Lake County history
100 years ago May 16, 1913 Mrs. Clemens’ two-story house in the northeast part of the city, near the Panhandle tracks, burned last Saturday forenoon, through a mishap near the water plant by a water main bursting shortly after the No. 2 hose had arrived …
Kitty Conley’s Scratching Post, May 16
Happy Birthday May 17: Tom Liss is 65 today May 21: Our son Breandan Conley shares this day with a young vivacious mom, Reena Foster May 22: Karen Caffarini Happy Anniversary May 20: Tom & Kathy Liss, happy 40th I am soooo ready for the …
Commissioners spar over 911 consolidation
CROWN POINT — It may not have come to fisticuffs at the May 1 meeting, but the voices were raised and Lake County Commission Chairman Roosevelt Allen of Gary looked like he would have liked to be almost anywhere but sitting between Commissioners Gerry Scheub …
