Gareth Kaye

Jack Frost certainly had an endless buffet of noses to nip on Friday night at Central Park Plaza, but the people of Northwest Indiana didn't let the freezing temperatures ice over their spirits. The annual Downtown Holly Days Festival on Friday...

Fearless leader of the of the overlooked powerhouse that is the Valparaiso High School Speech and Debate team, Caroline Koenig approaches me with a bright smile as we look for a place to conduct this weeks Valpo Life in the Spotlight interview. Hair...

Yet again, Valparaiso High School's choral department held its annual Fall Fantasia show kicking off the department's year of performances. Each of the high school's four choirs performed under the direction of Linda Schonbachler and accompanied by...

Footsteps, lockers closing, people laughing, people complaining -the typical overture of a high school morning. Yet Monday at Valparaiso High School kicked off a rather special week that rolls around once every year: Homecoming Spirit Week. Most...

Miguel Rosario greets everyone with a smile, much like he did for when I entered his office for our Valpo Life in the Spotlight interview. Rosario is entering his nineteenth year in the Valparaiso High School Band Department, beginning his career in...

Joe Otis is a Valparaiso High School icon. Whether in the classroom, on the basketball court, or just in passing through the hallways, Otis seems to impact the lives of all who interact with him. I first met Otis my freshman year. I had him second...

Friday, the sixteenth of August Flanagin’s Bulk Mail Service held their annual yard sale; this year to benefit the American Heart Association’s Team Kelli to raise money for the groups upcoming walk in September. Flanagin’s is a locally owned...

The Alliance of Students Against Poverty was formed in 2010 at Valparaiso High School by Peter Fink and Domi Szabo, and since then the club has gone a long way from a small group of friends playing freelance in a small computer lab to a large, well...

Valparaiso University is where "Athens meets Jerusalem,” President of Valparaiso University Mark A. Heckler said today at the end of the school’s Commencement Ceremony as the graduates prepared to rise and turn their tassels. In his fifth year as...

The Butterfield Pavilion at the Old County Fair Grounds on Morgan Street was full. The rain was pouring down outside but inside the mood was far from dreary on Thursday night as the Valparaiso Parks Department hosted an evening in honor of the...