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NEWS
The Northwest Indiana Times, and the Post Tribune are the
top newspapers for info about the Gary School System.
If you are not receiving a paper, I would recommend one of
these two. The number for the PT is (800) 876-8974, and the
number for the NWIT is (800) 589-3331.
NORTHWEST INDIANA
The Times’ challenge is to serve such a diverse and balkanized
community. It does so by producing nine daily geographically
zoned editions, providing both a regional news report and
the depth and flavor of a hometown newspaper.
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GARY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT DENIES MISMANAGEMENT OF ART COLLECTION VALUED AT $500,000
Original oil paintings by esteemed artists such as Theodore C. Steele, Frank Dudley and Karl Buehr have lined walls in Gary schools since the early 1900s.
The collection began as a tool to teach fine arts and instill culture under pioneering Superintendent William A. Wirt in 1906, but it has been reduced in the past century to an elusive, dwindling asset, often locked away from children's eyes.
Some fear the district is close to losing an irreplaceable part of its art and educational history — whether by mismanagement, decay or mysterious pilfering.
Don't ask Superintendent Mary Steele whether the district has failed to oversee its precious art properly. She doesn't like disclosing details and won't show premium pieces, which are allegedly kept in a secret vault.
Neither can Steele account for why a collection once boasting more than 200 works has been nearly halved.
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AETNA POWDER PLANT ACCIDENT DEBUNKED
The Aetna Powder Co. was a central part of the lives of residents during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Established in 1881, the factory made explosives for Midwest farmers to use in clearing their fields of tree stumps and large rocks.
Seeking the “most desolate and uninhabitable spot in the central west,” the company was developed on an 800-acre tract, with high sand dunes protecting the 26 buildings, and their workers, from explosions.
The location was considered ideal, according to the June 3, 1956, Jubilee Edition of The Post-Tribune. To the north was Lake Michigan, to the west was Chicago, to the east Michigan City, to the south, only sand.
Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago were small villages, and the founding of Gary was more than 25 years away.
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