Hobart going back to the future, focusing on Lake George

HOBART | The city's past and future continue to be linked to Lake George, Mike Adams said.

Carnival season kicks off along the Gulf Coast

Christmas wreaths and holiday parties gave way to king cakes and street parades as the Carnival season kicked off this weekend along the Gulf Coast.

Math is anything but boring at NYC's newest museum

This is how math is presented at New York City's brand-new Museum of Mathematics, the only museum of its kind in the United States and a place where math is anything but boring.

For good and ill, adoption transformed by Internet

In the emotion-charged realm of adoption, the Internet has been a transformative force, often for good, sometimes for ill.

Mental diagnostic manual drops Asperger's syndrome as a separate mental disorder

"Asperger's syndrome" is dropped as a separate diagnosis in the first major rewrite in almost two decades of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids

Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities in recent years, but advocates say barriers can block one basic human right: To be a parent.

South Shore Arts Executive Director John Cain

South Shore Arts Executive Director John Cain is hosting his 19th Annual Holiday Reading at Center for Visual and Performing Arts on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.

AL HAMNIK: Timing is perfect for Gabrielle Douglas event in Gary

Chuck Hughes knows a lot of people. It's his job as executive director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, an organization in dire need of feel-good stories.

Hobart's Maria Reiner celebrates first anniversary amid continued growth, success

HOBART | Tom Rees, 88, and Leona Packham, 85, came to the Maria Reiner senior center on Thursday for the breakfast

Board of Maria Reiner Senior Center to convene Tuesday

HOBART | The Maria Reiner Center Board of Directors will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Police, Court and Community Complex, 704 E. Fourth St.

FROM the FARM: Chili winners add some surprise ingredients

Phil Potempa's weekly farm column recipe.

The art we live with -- design around the house

Anything you do that has to do with design in Grand Rapids must start with John Berry, who would be considered the Grand Poobah of form, function and designs for living in this country—and probably further afield than that, when you think about it—if there was such a designate. In John Berry…

Consumer Credit seeks fresh start with new director

MERRILLVILLE | Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northwest Indiana Inc. is working to improve its profile in the community following the hiring of a new chief executive.

Hobart names new executive director for senior citizen center

HOBART | Pamela Broadaway will start her job as the first executive director of the Maria Reiner Center beginning Tuesday.

Valentines are for collecting, cherishing

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue ... Many St. Valentine Day cards start with that phrase. And the cards mean different things to different people.

A Good Man

Goodman Theatre Executive Director Roche Schulfer, who was born in Hammond, in his downtown office at the Goodman Theatre. (Photo by Peter Wynn Thompson)

Goodman's Roche Schulfer is the man behind three decades of 'A Christmas Carol'

When the idea was passed around more than three decades ago among the administration of the Goodman Theatre to develop an annual holiday stage production, Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" was the favored choice.