Burns Harbor News

The Burns Harbor Town Council will hear a report when it meets Wednesday that INDOT likely will install a traffic signal at Indiana 149 and Tech Drive next year.

ArcelorMittal will host a meeting on Nov. 18 about its permit application to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a proposed on-site solid waste landfill storage facility at the Burns Harbor facility.

O* the day after what would have been her father's 67th birthday, Christy Dujmovich-Jarka, a group of family members and Tony Dujmovich's former co-workers at ArcelorMittal's Burns Harbor plant went for a walk.

A joint committee of the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission and the Northwest Indiana Forum is working to get federal Economic Development Administration grants for the region Monday.

The Burns Harbor Board of Zoning Appeals voted 3-2 Tuesday approving a towing service and impound storage yard in the new downtown zoning district.

The Burns Harbor Board of Zoning Appeals will hear a request to vary the approved uses in the new downtown zoning district when the BZA meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the town hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd.

Levels are well below amounts considered hazardous but environmentalists still concerned about open dump Comments October 25, 2009 BY GITTE LAASBY, 648-2183 Mercury is contained in the 700,000 tons of blast furnace waste that ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor has stored directly on the ground less than 500 feet from Lake Michigan for the past two decades.

Because Porter County was behind in its property tax distributions this year, the county doled out nearly $127,000 to taxing units from interest the county earned on the money.

Reggie Hess set the table, figuratively speaking, when he introduced himself to several strangers last month at my roundtable discussion on health-care reform.

Town officials said it's a classic Catch 22. They want to help 19 families living in Rainbow Trailer Park, but if the Burns Harbor Town Council takes too firm a stance in trying to force park compliance it could mean the residents end up with no place to live.

The Indiana Department of Transportation wants to meet with Burns Harbor officials regarding possible installation of a traffic signal at Indiana 149 and Tech Drive south of U.S. 20.

In response to concerns raised by Post-Tribune readers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tested the 700,000 tons of steelmaking waste that ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor has stored 500 feet from Lake Michigan for years.

Seven years ago, in May 2002, a sampling of elected and appointed officials from Duneland, along with a good mix of businesspeople, took a bus tour of some of the development hot spots in Porter County: the AmeriPlex in Portage, the Eastport Centre in Valparaiso, and Coffee Creek Center in Chesterton.

The Chesterton father and son who drowned a year ago in the September floods trying to rescue a boy swept away in a raging drainage ditch in the Westchester South subdivision have been posthumously awarded Carnegie medals for heroism.

When it comes to moving products around, Indiana is a leader in the nation. That strength is something that Northwest Indiana can harness to bring in more jobs, experts say.

When it came to clean up after the August tornado, the town received help from a former Town Board member -- and professional forester.

Duneland Rotarians hope a 117-year-old hobby for collectors worldwide will boost their new scholarship fund that honors the late William Carmichael, a former Rotarian and longtime Porter County commissioner.

Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of the Town of Burns Harbor, Porter County, Indiana that the proper legal officers of the Town of Burns Harbor, at their regular meeting place at 1240 North Boo Road, Burns Harbor, Indiana, at 7:00 o'clock p.m. on the 14th day of October, 2009 will consider the following additional appropriations in excess of ...

Three Northwest Indiana residents were on hand to testify against a proposed rate increase by Indiana American Water Co.

New building permit fees, that would have put in place an across the board 20 cents per square foot inspection fee were rejected by the Burns Harbor town council Wednesday.