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The council approved spending $200,000 on consulting services with two engineering firms.

City Engineer Jeff Wright explained he missed a procedural detail, which meant the city can’t receive money from the Indiana Department of Transportation grant the city was awarded.

Among the requests are snowplows, mechanics' trucks, a street sweeper, crew cab trucks, tractors, portable radios, riot gear, a water rescue vehicle, a fire marshal vehicle, a dump truck and

“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, ...

Organizers gathered outside along Michigan Boulevard in Michigan City calling for Mayor Duane Parry's resignation following a racially charged comment left on a voicemail. John Luke, The Times MICHIGAN CITY — A racially charged comment, apparently inadvertently recorded at the end of a phone message left by Mayor Duane Parry for a black local pastor, was blasted over a loudspeaker Tuesday outside City Hall amid calls for the mayor to resign. “On the recording, the mayor thinks he has hung up the phone and falls into his comfort zone,” said Pastor James Lane of Pleas...