Sandpipers Recognized for Performance With Foreigner On Wednesday, August 9, 25 members of the Chesterton Sandpipers performed with the legendary rock band Foreigner on stage at the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago, Illinois....
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The Duneland Exchange Club recently presented Liberty Elementary fourth grade student Lillian Figolah, center, with the Young Citizenship Award. Also pictured left to right, is Duneland Exchange club representative and presenter Lorelei Weimer,...
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Second grade students at Yost Elementary in Chesterton have been learning about economics by studying about wants, goods, services, consumers, producers and resources. As a way to apply these learned skills, second grade teachers Jade Navarre,...
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The Lake-Porter Academic Conference math contest was hosted on Wednesday, April 16 at Fegely Middle School in Portage. The Chesterton Middle School sixth grade team (a mix of Liberty and Westchester Intermediate students) placed first, the seventh...
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Valparaiso High School won the state championship in the second-year and fourth-year divisions and placed third in the third-year division at the Japanese Olympiad of Indiana at Indiana University in Bloomington on Saturday. Chesterton High School...
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Bailly Elementary fourth graders in Cris Petro’s class presented the play, The Brixton Brothers and the Case of the Case of the Mistaken Identity, at the end of this past school year. Students performed for students, staff and parents during the...
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The Duneland Education Foundation (DEF), in partnership with the Flora Richardson Foundation, presented a grant to the Dunes Learning Center. The grant helps all third and fourth grade students participate in a two day one night adventure at the...
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Bailly Elementary second grade students donated $1000 to the Westchester Neighbors Food Pantry with proceeds from their Sweet Treat Factory. As part of their unit on economics, students made and sold 3200 chocolate covered pretzels. The process...
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Children’s author and illustrator Rick Chrustowski recently visited the four Duneland Elementary schools of Bailly, Brummitt, Jackson and Liberty. He talked to students about how he gets his ideas for writing, showed them how he does his own...
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Ten Duneland Elementary winners and their alternates gathered at Jackson Elementary for a district wide spelling bee on Monday. The overall Duneland spelling bee winner was Peyton Martinson of Yost Elementary and runner-up was Emily Freundt of...
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