Ride along with LaPorte Police Specialist Justin Dyer as he patrols the streets of LaPorte.
âWhen youâre tapped to serve your country, you become property of the U.S. government,â said American Legion 1st District Commander Dan Mills. âYou become a thing. Youâre expendable.â
âToday is a reflection upon those who came before us,â he said. Because of them, âfreedom and liberty are ours to share with the next generation.â
Mayor David Uran stressed the meaning of the holiday. âMemorial Day is a time to reconnect with its history and core values,â he said. âReflection is part of learning and thinking.â
CROWN POINT â The owner of a company retained by the Lake County commissioners to provide electronic monitoring of criminal defendants claims the sheriff is trying to destroy his business by repeatedly criticizing the company for not providing police with timely notification over escaped defendants.
Herbert Smith, of ICU Monitoring, said Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez is not a party to his contract with commissioners and has never met with him to discuss his protocol and procedures.
But the sheriff has repeatedly held up multiple escapes by defendants under the watch of Smith s firm as evidence the county needs to sever ties with the company.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
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.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.