Calumet Twp. vendors receive $24M over 10 years

GARY | The Calumet Township trustee's office kept more than just the poor housed and fed, 10 years of financial data analyzed by The Times show.

Calumet Township data reveals it as big spender among townships

GARY | The multimillion-dollar budget for the Calumet Township trustee has been a fat target for critics from Griffith Town Hall to the statehouse in Indianapolis.

Gary accepts keys to 3 ambulances donated by Calumet Township

GARY | Calumet Township Trustee Mary Elgin on Thursday handed over the keys of three ambulances from the township's retired fleet to Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson.

Emergency Management Fair scheduled Thursday in Gary

GARY | Calumet Township Trustee Mary Elgin is partnering with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to host an Emergency Management Awareness Fair designed to increase awareness and disaster preparedness in Northwest Indiana.

Griffith may get reprieve from Calumet Twp. taxes

INDIANAPOLIS | State lawmakers are considering changes to a plan reducing property taxes paid by Griffith residents to Calumet Township.

Senate bill may be tax windfall for Griffith

GRIFFITH | Newly amended legislation is promising a large tax break to community property owners and a boost to town government's coffers, Councilman Rick Ryfa said Wednesday afternoon.

Former Calumet Township trustee's request to leave prison pending appeal denied

CHICAGO | The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a former Calumet Township trustee's request for release pending his appeal, court records state.

EDITORIAL: Time to eliminate township government

Griffith officials are continuing their crusade to get out from the crushing burden of supporting Calumet Township. What Griffith residents need is the lasting relief that would come from reinventing government, not just a Rube Goldberg patchwork solution.

Griffith pleads for law allowing it to leave Calumet Township

GRIFFITH | There is no Griffith Township in Lake County, yet, but Town Councilmen George Jerome and Rick Ryfa hope to create one in a renewal of their perennial effort to secede from poverty-stricken Calumet Township.

Incumbents sweep Cal Township races

CALUMET TOWNSHIP | Voters overwhelmingly threw their support behind Calumet Township Trustee Mary Elgin and the three incumbent board members.

Elgin, Brown battle for Calumet Twp. trustee

CALUMET TOWNSHIP | When Mary Elgin was first elected Calumet Township trustee, she had an annual budget of $24 million. As she wraps up her second term, that budget stands at about $5 million.