Actors Yano Anaya and Zack Ward - who portrayed Grover Dill and Scut Farkus, respectively - will be at Crown Antique Mall on November 7th, making an appearance for the “Meet the Bullies” event. The event will be from 10am to 7pm and be themed around the classic Christmas film.

A proposed economic development along Interstate 65, near Lowell, will be the subject at an open Q&A session held at Tri-Creek School District Admin Office this Thursday. The session will begin at 6pm this Thursday.

While 800 Region laborers remain out of work due to a never-ending bargaining dispute, BP has reported higher profits in the previous quarter - eclipsing last quarter’s $5.7 billion in profit by almost $3 billion. Operating cash flow for the company also increased by about $4 billion. BP continues to lock out workers at the Whiting refinery, unrelenting in their desire to weaken collective bargaining rights for their union laborers and make future contract negotiations more difficult for USW Local 7-1.

The new proposal was submitted last Wednesday by USW, as agreements on pay, healthcare, benefits and safety remain on the fritz. U.S. Steel’s last proposal asked for a 5 year contract, instead of the sought after 4 year contract, as well as increased health care costs. The company has walked back the health care proposal, but has yet to weigh in on USW’s new proposal. Tens of thousands of laborers will be affected by these contract negotiations.

Their third quarter profits totalled $129.5 million, which brings the total for this fiscal year to $685.7 million - which is 2% up from their recorded profits around this time last year. Amid huge capital expenditure plans in the coming years, among them data center projects, NiSource has often elected to pass those costs off to the customers through rate hikes - hence the ever-increasing profits. Expected base growth over the next 7 years is supposed to be between 8-10%.

The intersection of Parrish Ave and U.S. 231 will be closed for two weeks starting today in order to take care of utility relocations ahead of the construction of a planned roundabout. Alternate routes along U.S. 41, U.S. 30 and State Road 55, as well as detours locally on 101st Avenue, Cline Avenue, and 117th Avenue will be available.

After a meeting between Lake County election officials and representatives from the U.S. Justice Department last week, it was confirmed that election monitors sent at the behest of the U.S. Assistant Attorney General and Justice Department would not be allowed to set up inside of polling locations. These federal election monitors, which are being sent to both Lake County and Marion County in Indiana, will be outside of polling places conducting voluntary voter interviews. Voters can decline to be interviewed by these officials for any or no reason if they so wish.

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On Nov. 5, 1966 - 60 years ago this Thursday - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Public Law 89-761, authorizing the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and capping a preservation fight that began in 1899 with University of Chicago botanist Henry Chandler Cowles and was carried for decades by Ogden Dunes teacher Dorothy Buell and her Save the Dunes Council. The deal, championed by Illinois Sen. Paul H. Douglas - nicknamed 'the third senator from Indiana' - paired the lakeshore with the Burns Waterway Harbor (today's Port of Indiana) in what became known as the Kennedy Compromise. The original lakeshore covered just 8,330 acres; later expansions grew it past 15,000 acres, and in February 2019 it was renamed Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana's first national park.

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