Ogden Dunes News

For Northwest Indiana, the state budget bill that passed Tuesday is a big boost to those favoring more regional government, and an equally big slap for Porter County officials who have rejected the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority and the prospect of more taxes.

BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED by the Ogden Dunes Town Council as follows: AMENDING Section 1: of Ordinance #702 to read as follows.

"Not on my dune, you don't," a Northwest Indiana town is telling city folk out looking for a frolick on Lake Michigan .

State Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, is making a last-minute push for increased state funding for adult education.

Ogden Dunes has won a lawsuit against a couple for renting their house out on a weekend and weekly basis.

Water continues to flood basements in shoreline communities in Northwest Indiana.

In five minutes Monday night, Gov. Mitch Daniels sketched out his vision for Indiana's finances over the next two years: spending cuts, education increases and rainy day fund preservation.

Late Pulitzer-prize winning author and photographer Edwin Way Teale, whose summers and holidays in the dunes as a child left a lasting impression on his life and art, is now commemorated with a historical marker outside the home he owned here.

The manager of the town waterworks says a solution to the flooding of homes at the south end of town must start with the National Park Service and continue with help from the city of Gary.

The Portage Township School Board will be asked at its meeting tonight to continue serving as the fiscal agent for the region's adult education, keeping the struggling program intact for at least one more year.

At a minute after noon Monday, Anthony Norlock, 5, jumped to his feet on the curb across from City Hall, pointed toward the flashing lights and sirens, and shouted, "They're coming!" Moments later Portage paramedic Nathan Bryan, his uncle, waved to him from the cab of Portage Fire Department Rescue One as it passed on Central Avenue, headed for ...

A new lead monitor would be located in Burns Harbor near the Arcelor Mittal plant, under a proposal by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to increase its air monitoring network.

Heavy rains late on Wednesday forced the Chesterton wastewater treatment plant to bypass untreated or partially treated sewage into the Little Calumet River, the Utility said.

A new team is laying plans for the community to join five other Northwest Indiana cities and towns as Indiana CLEAN communities by the end of this year.

Flooded basements caused some heated exchanges between Ogden Dunes Town Council mem- bers and residents Monday night.

The sump pump in Karel Kearl's basement has been running almost constantly since she installed it April 6. "If I'm not pumping out, my basement would be full to the top," she said.

Indiana-American Water Company is seeking to increase its rate by 28.86 percent, in what would be--if granted by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission --the fifth rate hike obtained by the company in seven years.

When IDEM Commissioner Thomas Easterly was appointed in 2005, a pile of backlogged permits were collecting dust on agency desks: Nearly 300 air permits and 276 water permits.

When the police officer at Vale Park and Silhavy roads in Valparaiso is directing you on which way to go, you do not still have to stop at the stop sign.

The following are the Porter County projects that are on Northwest Indiana's recommended list of projects to be funded through the federal stimulus plan.