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"I really want the library to be a resource for the community," new Lake County Public Library Director Carol Daumer Gutjahr said.

Three of Northwest Indiana's largest library districts recently phased out fines on most materials.

The state's third largest public library system serves about half of Lake County's population.

“I’ll see you in heaven.” It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Al’s hospitalization. Noe, 66, ...