Collaboration cultivates entrepreneurial spirit in Gary

GARY | Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson discovered during sessions of her 15 minutes with the mayor initiative that many residents had entrepreneurial aspirations.

New faces, ideas for Ogden Dunes

OGDEN DUNES | Newly elected Town Councilman Charlie Costanza said he is seeing new life breathed into the small, lakefront town he has called home for his entire life.

Former Ogden Dunes councilman questions legality of meeting

OGDEN DUNES | Former Ogden Dunes Town Councilman Eric Kurtz believes the Town Council violated the Indiana Open Door Law by holding a meeting Monday afternoon without appropriate notification.

Cull begins in Ogden Dunes

OGDEN DUNES | The deer cull began here Tuesday morning without incident. Before dawn two hunters took their stations in tree stands in the town's Suerenity Park. By 11 a.m. they had harvested one deer.

EDITORIAL: Humans take precedence over deer

In small lakefront communities along the Lake Michigan shoreline, the beauty of nature is a prime selling point. But residents' health must be a bigger concern than the welfare of wild animals.