School thanks dealership

Portage High School would like to thank the Paul Heuring Ford dealer for teaming up with them for the Drive for your School event. On April 27, the Drive for your School event was held at Portage High School. We received a check for $2900 from the Ford Corporation that will be used for stude…

Celebrating a Silver Anniversary in Portage

History and the summer go hand in hand in our city just about this time every year.

Bridge players show improvement in thrice-weekly games

Improvement is a key ingredient for the top 50 bridge players who achieved the highest individual masterpoint totals for the month of March in duplicate bridge in thrice-weekly games in Highland and Calumet Township.

Festival celebrates Historical Society’s 25th anniversary

PORTAGE | The Portage Community Historical Society is hosting a 25th anniversary festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Society, 5250 US Highway 6.

Policeman's hand broken in altercation with suspect

PORTAGE | A Portage man is facing multiple charges after what started as a domestic incident Monday evening escalated into a fight with Portage police officers, breaking one officer's hand.

Porter County crime briefs

Home burglarized, then burglarized again

Portage YMCA events

Child Care and Development Center (full time child care): We currently have openings for 2, 3 and 4 year olds in our State Licensed Child Care Center. Enroll you 2 year old in the center and for the first 3 weeks paid, receive the 4th week free. “The Child Care Center is not just a place whe…

Free concert in the park

PORTAGE | Blue Cool Red Hot will perform on Tuesday at Woodland Park, as part of the summer Music in the Park Series, is sponsored by the Portage park Department and the Greater Portage chamber of Commerce.

Portage Township Schools to realign administrators

PORTAGE | The pending departure of a Portage Township Schools assistant superintendent has prompted school officials to reorganize administrative roles.

EDITORIAL: Look at all costs for new Portage courthouse

Porter County is talking about building a new courthouse in downtown Portage to replace the existing one on Willowcreek Road. But is this a smart move for the county?

Portage schools offer free summer meal program

Portage Township Schools Food Service Department is pleased to participate in the USDA Summer Feeding Program again this year. This federally funded program offers free meals to children ages 1 through 18 at no cost throughout the summer months.

Mighty Acorns

Biking with dad

Victoria Krueger takes a break from riding with her dad to pet a deer they found along a road on their trip from Portage to Kentucky.

Biking with dad

Rodney Krueger and his daughter, Victoria, 11, get ready to ride to the Indiana-Kentucky state line.

Disband of brothers: Friends part ways to pursue military careers

PORTAGE | The five friends dubbed the "important guys" gathered in Jennifer Hudson's home for pancakes before their last day of high school.

Portage father, daughter bond on downstate trek

PORTAGE | Rodney Krueger and daughter, Victoria, left on a bike ride Monday. By Saturday, they made it to their destination, the Indiana-Kentucky state line, by way of U.S. 41.

Portage school marks first commencement

Kyle Abramson, 20, of Lake Station, is a member of the 2013 New Vistas High School graduating class. The school's commencement ceremony took place Friday at Woodland Park in Portage.

Portage school marks first commencement

Charles Beach, 17, of Merrillville, lines up with classmates before the start of the New Vistas High School commencement Friday at Woodland Park in Portage. The ceremony was the first for the charter school, which opened in September 2012.

Elkins part of UFC's return to Indy in August

The Ultimate Fighting Championship will return to Indiana in late summer after nearly three years away, and one of the region's elite fighters has found his way onto the card.