BILL MASTERSON JR.: Change brings opportunity with Boys & Girls Clubs

Something many people know in Lake County but not in Porter County is that long-time CEO and Executive Director Lincoln Ellis is leaving the Lake county Boys & Girls Clubs to pursue other interests.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Use report as guide on quality of life

Social service organizations like Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana have many great stories to share – stories depicting life-altering situations their clients have experienced. While these stories serve a meaningful purpose, donors need and want to know more on how their contribut…

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: After-school programs bridge the gap for kids

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention statistics show: “Juvenile violence peaks in the after-school hours on school days," between when school ends and when parents/guardians arrive home from work!

Groundbreaking marks beginning of new Boys & Girls Club in Gary

GARY | Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson spoke fondly of memories she experienced attending the now-shuttered Tolleston Middle/High School.

NIPSCO pledges $1 million to Boys and Girls Clubs of NWI for new center

GARY | The news of a $1 million gift to help rebuild a former school into a new center for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana proved overwhelming for Rose Joiner.

Volunteers begin transforming Tolleston

Hundreds gathered Saturday morning to clean the former school building at Nineteenth Avenue and Marshall Street. The second day of cleanup marked the first phase in creating the new John Will Anderson Boys & Girls Club.

Tolleston Clean Sweep for Boy & Girls Club

Hundreds gathered Saturday morning to clean the building at 19th Avenue and Marshall Street. The second day of cleanup marked the first phase in creating the new John Will Anderson Boys & Girls Club.

Volunteers begin transforming 'diamond in the rough'

GARY | Generations of young lives were shaped by lessons learned in the classrooms of Tolleston school, and volunteers are hopeful many more soon will share those experiences.

BILL MASTERSON JR.: It takes a village in Gary

"It takes a village." That is how Lisa Daugherty, advertising director and Crown Point general manager for The Times, discussed the popularity of our mostly unknown yet extremely popular community websites we are developing on nwi.com. Her point is we have so many cool things that not only t…

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Crucial questions we need to ask, answer

How can our society expect children to learn and thrive when they are hungry?

Some Gary school buildings to get a new life

GARY | Three of 11 vacant Gary school buildings have been sold and another building is under negotiation.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Fathers, act more like dads should be

As a product of the late '50s and early '60s, my vision of a "typical" American family was shaped by what I watched on television -- something that many readers, I am sure, can attest to as well.