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Check out this video to see what Bead Town is all about! Coming soon to the Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts.
Environment
Join in the celebration of Earth Day, the National Park Service Centennial and the 50th anniversary of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore at the annual Green Gary on Saturday, April 23, from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. This fun, family-friendly event takes place at the national lakeshore’s Paul H. Douglas Center and is presented in partnership with over 20 organizations including the Gary Park Department and the Gary Department of Green Urbanism. #npscentennial #findyourpark jm
www.nps.gov/indu/learn/news/green-gary-2016.htm
Green Gary Celebration at National Lakeshore - 2016...
Environment & Eco Tourism
Volunteers needed! Come bust some blight in our town this Saturday!
Environmental Recreation
The EPA is still assessing the extent of the chromium 6 chemical spill in Portage, which closed at least 3 beaches. People and pets are urged to avoid contact with the lake water.
Several beaches at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore were closed Tuesday after a toxic chemical called hexavalent chromium spilled into the Burns Water...
Healthcare
Medicaid expansion helping to cover thousands in NWI
Nashanta Robinson, an office manager from Gary, had been paying about a third of her salary for her and her husband, Earl, to have health insurance....
Photography
Press! www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/miller-fest-will-celebrate-acclaimed-author-nelson-algren/article_1df49ac1-cf98-5665-8cb3-2262acdb078c.html
GARY — Miller is going to throw a big party this month to honor Nelson Algren, the National Book Award-winning author who had a beach house in the G...
Shopping
www.nwitimes.com/business/local/art-gallery-will-be-th-new-business-in-miller-this/article_43c67e39-87e9-56f1-9b29-9b4bc945517a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
A new art gallery is coming to Gary’s Miller Beach neighborhood, which has been undergoing a resurgence and where four new businesses have opened th...
Volunteering
Please feel free to share our general flyer far and wide! Much thanks and love!
Youth
Gary youth singer songwriter nominated for Chicago Music Award
Gary resident Kerry James Rodgers Jr. has suffered from a speech impediment his whole life, but found his voice as a singer-songwriter after his mothe...
