For Valparaiso University junior Ashley Vernon, a visual media arts major, news that the university plans to sell three cornerstone works from the Brauer Museum of Art to raise funds to renovate dorms for first-year students was just another thing that makes her feel as if the university is increasingly pushing arts programing to the side.
A dozen Lake County candidates are being challenged and face possible removal Feb. 21 by the county election board if they are found to have violated state election laws.
A push by Valparaiso Councilman Robert Cotton urging redirection of ARPA funds to reduce the amount of city bond debt for expansive water projects was ignored by the council for other plans to finance the first phase of a park department new senior activity center.