Dan Petreikis

A new year, another month, and another chance to get out and see everything that Northwest Indiana has to offer. Each month, we visit one of the towns in the area to showcase the unique, the charming, and the beautiful, all right in our own...

For the Life Sites’ second installment featuring sights waiting to be discovered in local communities, we turn our attention toward Lake County, taking a visit to Crown Point, Ind. People who are looking for picturesque, Instagram-ready sites, or...

The Swanson Center was happy to receive a generous donation on Friday from Centier Bank, in celebration of the Swanson Center’s 50th anniversary of service to the community. “We feel that this is a good investment into an organization that does...

The sound they make rings a bell in our collective memories. The familiar clackety-THWACK clackety-THWACK as fingers jab intently at mechanical keys. Manual typewriters, machines that were once a fixture in homes, offices and classrooms, had all...

There is perhaps a no better way to kick off the holiday season than with a parade, and the City of La Porte is one town that knows that as well as anyone, as the annual La Porte Santa Parade to kicks off the official start to the 2019 holiday...

How many times do we really get to stop and appreciate a particularly beautiful sunset? It’s so easy to get caught up in the daily rush of things that we often forget beauty is all around us, no matter the season. From misty fields to old barns,...