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Hammond officials and faith leaders braved subzero temperatures Monday for the city's annual Martin Luther King Day March. During the celebration that followed at the Civic Center, Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. noted that this year's march was the smallest he'd ever seen, but he resisted calls to cancel it.
"When I'm walking from Freedom Plaza to the Hammond Civic Center, I try to keep in mind all the pains that so many people went through, to make sure that our country was treating people with equality and not being discriminatory," McDermott said.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan recently announced that Burns Harbor will receive a $120,000 federal grant from the Department of Transportation.
The grant is part of the Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The program aims to improve roadway safety in communities. The grant funding supports communities in planning and implementing infrastructure projects designed to reduce transportation-related injuries and fatalities.
The town of Burns Harbor wouldn’t be what it is today without the heavy industry that calls it home. But with that industry and the subsequent commercial traffic come inherent risk to the residents who also call it home. Now a $120,000 U.S. Department of Transportation safety grant will help the two coexist even better.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, announced the DOT’s Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) grant Wednesday. The award aims to support plans to implement projects designed to reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries.
Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced a federal grant award for the Town of Burns Harbor from the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant program.
According to the DOT, the Town of Burns Harbor will receive $120,000 under the SS4A Grant program, which aims to improve roadway safety by supporting communities in developing plans to implement infrastructure projects designed to reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries.
Representative Frank Mrvan announced Wednesday a federal grant award for the Town of Burns Harbor from the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant program.
According to the DOT, the Town of Burns Harbor will receive $120,000 under the SS4A Grant program, which aims to improve roadway safety by supporting communities in developing plans to implement infrastructure projects designed to reduce transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries.
The United States Department of Commerce will impose tariffs on tin mill products after a surge hurt American steelmakers, leading U.S. Steel to idle its tin operations at Gary Works.
It will impose tariffs of between 2.69% and 331.88% on steelmakers from Canada, Germany, Korea and China.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan recently presented United Way of La Porte County with funding for new mental health initiatives.
The Michigan City-based organization will use the funding to better understand and address youth mental health and substance concerns in La Porte County.
The project will include a youth mental health and substance abuse needs assessment for the county. It will provide community education and outreach to youth and their families.
On December 20, 2023, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a grant to the Indiana Department of Transportation for the Flex Road Project to improve conditions on the Borman Expressway in the Northwest Indiana region.
A $400,000 federal grant will help the Porter County Sheriff’s Office with technology upgrades for its officers and pay for traffic cameras that track license plates of suspect vehicles.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan (D-Highland) and Porter County Sheriff Jeff Balon announced the COPS Technology and Equipment grant award at a press conference Monday at the Porter County Sheriff’s Office.
A $127 million federal grant, announced this week, will help the Indiana Department of Transportation implement ways to improve safety and reduce congestion on the Borman Expressway.
The Borman — the name for Interstates 80 and 94 in Lake County — is Indiana’s busiest interstate corridor, carrying more than 200,000 vehicles a day from the Illinois state line to Interstate 65.
The grant from the National Infrastructure Project Assistance program, known as MEGA, will pay for more than half of the anticipated $212.5 million cost of the Borman FlexRoad project.