Chesterton News

A Porter resident and a Portage resident were arrested Thursday on a charge of theft after Chesterton Police said that they stole scrap from Doler Heating and Cooling at 1575 S. Calumet Road.

The Chesterton Advisory Plan Commission gets its first opportunity Dec. 17 to comment on a final draft of the updated town comprehensive plan.

A Westville resident was arrested Wednesday on charges of possession of a narcotic drug, possession of paraphernalia, and public intoxication, Chesterton Police said.

The towns of Chesterton and Porter will hold a joint stormwater education program for fifth graders at Westchester Intermediate School on Dec.

A Chesterton resident was arrested Thursday on charges of neglect of a dependent, possession of a controlled substance, maintaining a common nuisance, possession of paraphernalia, and taking a child into a common nuisance, Porter Police said.

Local veterans and guests joined the Chesterton-Porter Rotary Club Tuesday at the Club's third annual Veteran's Day celebration held in the Westchester Public Library Service Center.

A former Chesterton man and registered sex offender has been charged with failure to register for the sex offender registry, the Porter County Prosecuting Attorney's Office said.

With the time to draw up that Christmas shopping list near, the Westchester Township History Museum's gift shop hopes to attract those with hard-to-shop-for friends who are interested in poetry, history and anything "green." The museum recently conducted a tryout for Prairie Prose, a product of the New Games movement.

An Aurora, Ill., woman who Chesterton Police say shoplifted nearly $2,000 in liquid baby formula on four separate occasions from the WiseWay Foods at 1600 Pioneer Trail last spring is facing a sentence of more than four years in the Indiana Department of Correction after pleading guilty to three felony charges.

Notice is hereby given that the Town of Chesterton Advisory Board of Zoning Appeals, at its regularly scheduled meeting held November 24, 2009 held at the Chesterton Town Hall, 726 Broadway, Chesterton, Indiana, shall hear the petition of Complete Control Systems, Inc.

The Duneland School Corporation has set tentative dates for H1N1 vaccinations at Chesterton Middle School and Chesterton High School.

Commended Students: Chesterton High School seniors Adam Potrzebowski and Luke Morgan are among the nation's 34,000 students designated as commended students in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program.

A Michigan City man who the Porter County Drug Task Force said was dealing cocaine in Chesterton was arrested Thursday on drug charges.

An Illinois woman who gave birth in September while a prisoner in custody of the Porter County Jail pleaded guilty Tuesday to a string of grocery store thefts.

A 32-year-old Chesterton man was arrested Monday on drug charges after the Porter County Drug Task Force said that he sold heroin to a 16-year-old girl whom he'd met at the skate park at 15th Street and Broadway.

Chesterton Police have documented another incident involving an autistic resident of the 1000 block of South 18th Street, this one, on Tuesday, coming to blows.

Notice is hereby given that the Chesterton Town Council will, at its next regularly scheduled meeting, on November 9, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as its schedule permits, at the Chesterton Town Hall, 726 Broadway, Chesterton, Indiana 46304, hear the Petition of Lorrie A. Wells to vacate the following real property located within the ...

Indiana-American Water Company should receive a rate increase of less than half the amount which it has asked the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to approve, the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor is saying.

The romance and charms of Florence, Italy, await all who experience the Tony Award winning musical, The Light in the Piazza to be presented at Chesterton's 4th Street Theater on Friday, October 30, Saturday, Oct.

WHEREAS, the Chesterton Town Council on March 26, 2001, adopted a Unified Comprehensive Zoning and Subdivision Control Ordinance; and WHEREAS, the Chesterton Town Council has initiated an amendment to the text portion of Chesterton's Zoning and Subdivision Control Ordinance in order to address the issue of nonconforming structures and uses; and ...