CEDAR LAKE â A new and exciting chapter was opened for Cedar Lake Tuesday, town officials and residents agreed. Â
During its Tuesday meeting, the Cedar Lake Town Council heard a presentation on its Cedar Lake Eco-Restoration program, which has been years in the making, and took a step toward getting the project off the ground within the next year.Â
The council unanimously approved a $387,513 engineering agreement for the project, which was met with applause from the crowd.
Jedd Anderson, vice president of Christopher B. Burke Engineering, said the firm has completed a study of the lake, where sediment was sampled and the depths of the lake was evaluated compared to the depth of the sediment.Â
The Post Office delivered a genuine letter for ol’ MAC this week, complete with a stamp and everything . . . well, everything except a return address and
Purdue celebrates distinguished professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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University family well-represented with alumni, adjunct faculty appointments
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Laura Pyrak-Nolte has dedicated her work at Purdue University to understanding fractures with the goal of ensuring environmental safety and enhancing renewable energy production.
Pyrak-Nolte, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Science, is one of Purdue’s latest members of the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional honors accorded to any engineer in the United States.
Also honored as part of the Purdue family among the academy’s latest class of 106 members is an adjunct professor, Santokh Badesha, and six alumni including alumnus Christopher Burke, a well-respected expert in water resource projects.
Active and sustainable transportation is often assumed to exclusively be the bailiwick of urban life. The importance of transit service and walking and biking infrastructure to the suburbs connecting residents to jobs and cultural activities in the city, as well as providing healthy and safe recreation in their own backyards can get short shrift. The Active Transportation Alliance put a spotlight on communities outside the Chicago city limits last week with Suburban Action Week, an impressive lineup of twenty-five virtual workshops, advocacy talks, and county updates covering transportation issues relevant to the six million Chicagoland residents living outside the city.