PORTAGE | City Councilman Mark Oprisko said he believes it is a
simple idea. City-owned vehicles should be marked as such with a
decal.
It would, he believes, improve accountability of those who drive
the vehicles.
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VALPARAISO | Maggie Wilderotter likes to share the story of a
woman from Westville, Ind., without broadband Internet for 11
years, who finally received it on her birthday, thanks to Frontier
Communications.
“There was a pent-up demand,” said Wilderotter, Frontier’s CEO.
“We do know we’ve made a huge difference in these markets.”
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VALPARAISO | Somehow the city was able to make more with less in
2011.
Despite receiving only 88 percent of the property taxes it
levied to collect in 2011, the city managed to end the year with a
balance that was $1 million more than it had at the end of 2010.
Clerk-Treasurer Sharon Swihart said that was because department
heads spent even less than she asked.
Swihart said the Porter County auditor, treasurer and assessor
met with city officials early in the year and warned them to expect
tax collections to be lower than previous years. Swihart said she
expected only about 92 percent of the $17.5 million budgeted for
the six funds that rely on property taxes, so that’s what she asked
department heads to spend.
CROWN POINT | Lake County officials have decided to put the fear
of God into their employees and each other.
Thomas Dabertin, county government’s human resources director,
said he will begin employee training sessions next month on
accepting gifts and misusing the Internet or government property
for personal gain, as well as the virtues of whistle-blowing.
VALPARAISO | It was a moment Nigel Singer won’t soon forget.
With 17 seconds left in a seventh-grade basketball game between
rival middle schools Ben Franklin in Valparaiso and Fegely in
Portage, the 12-year-old shot and scored.
The crowd erupted in applause and the young boy ran down the
court, hands in the air.
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