AP English Students Bring Creativity to the Classroom: Each year around this time, the students in Debora Hunter’s senior AP English classes have to get their creative juices flowing for a large creative project. This project has been in place for...
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#1StudentNWI: Winter 2015 Happenings at La Porte High School
#1StudentNWI: La Porte High School’s January Good News
Big Event-Silent Night BasketballOn Friday, December 12, the LPHS gymnasium was completely silent. This was because of the Silent Night event during the girls' varsity basketball game against Merrillville. The audience stayed completely quiet until...
Read MoreMichigan City Ice Rink Provides Hours of Winter Fun
It seems that around this time every year, everyone begins to get bored with winter. Christmas is long gone, the New Year's Eve celebrations are over, we have watched it snow for hours on end, and we just start to feel too cold to go anywhere. How do...
Read MoreA La Porte County Life in the Spotlight: Bruce Stahl
The saying "Don't judge a book by its cover" could not apply more to anyone than it does to Michigan City's Bruce Stahl. A Michigan City High School social studies teacher, his personality holds a solid mix of firm, yet fun. He feels fortunate to...
Read More“Year Ends, Life Begins,” Event Raises Funds for Worthy Women Inc.
Photos of "Year Ends, Life Begins," event can be seen here! Although the December day was chilly outside, the warmth of love and compassion filled the inside of the Worthy Women Recovery Home and poured out into the cold. The house is located...
Read More#1StudentNWI: La Porte High School Spanish Students Celebrate a “Feliz Navidad”
While many La Porte High School students left to go home after school on Thursday, some made their way to the foreign language hallway instead. The fragrant smells of melted cheese and taco meat wafted down the hallway as the students gathered into...
Read MoreLa Porte High School Choirs Sing Their Way into the Holiday Season
The sounds of angels’ voices could be heard coming from the La Porte High School auditorium on Wednesday night, echoing the merry songs of the holiday season. Well, the voices were not quite those of real angels, but they were rather close. They...
Read MoreA La Porte County Life in the Spotlight: Bob Schellinger
Through his passion for sports, the discipline which he has made a point to teach to his children, and the care and compassion that he shows each of his students and players, La Porte High School teacher and Head Football Coach Bob Schellinger, has...
Read MorePlaying for Jake, Slicers’ Ultimate Goal Comes Up One Step Short
All around me I heard chants of “Let’s go Slicers” and “We are LP.” All around me I saw an ocean of orange and black flowing throughout Lucas Oil Stadium. All around me I felt an extremely strong sense of Slicer pride and a surge of pure...
Read MoreLa Porte, New Prairie High Schools Combine For Massive Pep Rally Ahead of State Championship Games
It’s not every day that two rival schools are found in the same gymnasium on the same night, cheering for each other and wishing each other good luck. But that is what happened with the La Porte High School Slicers and the New Prairie High School...
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