Across Lake and Porter counties, voters got a hand Tuesday in crafting the November ballot, selecting their preferred candidates for mayor, clerk-treasurer and city or town council, in addition to school referendums in Highland, Lowell and Munster, though officials in both counties said turnout for the municipal primaries was low.
Around 250 community members gathered at the Carson Event Center Friday evening to celebrate the legacy of Cesar Chavez, a labor activist whose life remains uniquely relatable to many people today.
By Emily Robledo Sonoma County has seen a consistent decline in students prepared for kindergarten in the past five years, according to a report issued in late June by the Road to Early Achievement and Development for Youth (READY), an initiative of the Sonoma County Department of Human Services and First 5 Sonoma County. The report says that since the 2016-17 school year, there has been a decline