If bright lights in the sky and loud booms are your preferred way to celebrate Independence Day, central Indiana has a pyrotechnics display for you.

Northwest Indiana fireworks stores do boffo business around the Fourth of July as laws bar the sale of them in Illinois. The parking lot at Krazy Kaplans in Hammond was filled with Illinois

Join us at 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning, July 4th for the St. Matthews Independence Day 5K. This race has its origins back to the 1970's (with the course unchanged) in what was then called the St. Matthews Pavement Pounder. This fun and fast timed race begins and ends at St. Matthews Baptist Church (3515 Grandview Avenue). Walkers are welcome!