Porter County seeks to fill vacant tourism board seat
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.
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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.