Lorelei Weimer News Today

County Commissioner Jim Biggs told The Times that he wants to revisit the requirements for tourism board appointments in order to ensure that the body includes more local businesspeople.

“The political onslaught has been relentless, and I am worn out by the ongoing controversy and dissension," Mitch Peters wrote in his resignation letter.

The settlement between the tourism board and Lorelei Weimer, for $225,000, was described by critics as a politically-connected golden parachute goodbye.

Ask Lorelei Weimer what her accomplishments are as longtime leader of Indiana Dunes Tourism and she will provide a 16-point email, in no particular order, of what she’s most proud of. They include the construction of the joint visitor center on Indiana 49, a project with Indiana Dunes National Park for a building owned by the Porter County Board of Commissioners; creating the 3 Dune Challenge ...

The Indiana Dunes Visitors Center in Porter likely surpassed a record 200,000 visitors this summer.

Some of the sites at the Indiana Dunes National Park also would remain accessible to the public even in the event of a government shutdown.

All of us have been shareholders, of sorts, of the local steel industry, sharing in its profits, pitfalls, reputation and trickle down effects.

Not much has changed fundamentally in the Indiana dunes since Paul Labovitz arrived to take his new job nine years ago.

The GSA wasn’t happy with the park service leasing from a local government, Indiana Dunes Tourism attorney David Hollenbeck said, but it isn’t unheard of.

“The Pokagon Band looks forward to the day the tribal flag is flown in front of the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center, signifying the culmination of collaborative work amongst diverse stakeholders."