The Indiana Center for the Book at the Indiana State Library has announced the 2026 recipient of the Indiana Early Literacy Firefly Award as “Little Freddie Two Pants,” published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
1983 BNI Graduate the Very Rev. John Kartje to return to Noll to give special presentation
Spring semester Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) classes have begun at our Munster public and parochial schools.
Diane Christy Banks, a mother, grandmother, teacher, and retired hospital administrator who grew up in Hammond, graduated from Morton High School, received her MS Ed. from Indiana University and presently lives in Indianapolis with her little chocolate-brown Cockapoo, has published three books about Squirt, a sweet little puppy.
