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Q&A: Chuck Herber, Lafayette Jeff teacher and pushup champ at 81, ready to retire
‘When people ask how I can do the same thing every day, I think, it’s not the same thing!’ Chuck Herber on the classroom, students over 60 years and a…
 • Dave Bangert
‘Huge consequences’ in a ‘subtle’ change in where solar farms might be allowed
As draft regulations for utility-scale solar projects in Tippecanoe County head for a June deadline, one recommendation would take 41% of currently…
 • Dave Bangert
Tournament Time Snow edition
A few notes to open NCAA Tournament week.
 • Dave Bangert
A few odds and ends from the past week
About that silence that greeted a field hearing on American Suburban’s proposed rate increases. More time granted in Rainbow Trout Solar Project legal…
 • Dave Bangert
Trump-fueled retribution campaigns start to pour cash into Indiana Senate District 23, others
Report: Millions of dollars in national political ad campaigns are materializing in several Indiana races. Sen. Spencer Deery finds himself fending them…
 • Dave Bangert
Leaders join ‘pledge’ to end homelessness, as Lafayette numbers spike
‘Momentum like this is rare,' they say, calling on more to join the effort.
 • Dave Bangert
New athletic complex across from McCutcheon, Harrison renovations anticipate ‘elbow room’ for TSC
Tennis courts now, more later coming to corner of Old U.S. 231 and 500 South, near McCutcheon. Superintendent says similar athletic moves could come…
 • Dave Bangert
Kiss me, I’m … Tim’s Picks
Seeing plenty of green in this week’s selections.
 • Dave Bangert
This and that: A midweek edition
Some notes on candidate forums, a hearing on a proposed American Suburban rate increase, West Lafayette’s prep for a renewed property tax referendum and…
 • Dave Bangert
West Lafayette schools set stage for lottery for more transfer students
New policy, spurred by change in state law, also keeps current transfer students. Plus, state Senate challenger backed by Trump goes to Oval Office. ‘No…
 • Dave Bangert
Lawsuits challenging SK hynix rezoning: ‘There’s just an impasse’
Eight months later, sides still sorting out what can and can’t be considered in lawsuits filed by West Lafayette residents against a rezoning for the…
 • Dave Bangert
Charges dismissed against Kentucky woman accused of role in plot to shoot judge
Zenada Greer, who investigators tied to the crime by a car seen near Judge Steve Meyer’s home the day he was shot, had been held on $1 million cash and…
 • Dave Bangert
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