A top seller has been the meat lover’s omelet with sausage, ham, bacon, green pepper, onion and cheese.

When it comes to safety tech, no advanced driver-assistance systems come standard, but with a starting price of $23,490 (plus $995 for destination), I’m not mad about that. My fully loaded ($33,245 including destination) Touring, however, comes with adaptive cruise control that works above 5 mph, automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, lane-keep assist, blind spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, plus parking sensors front and rear.

The Merrillville Tea Room, whose formal afternoon teas are a holiday tradition for many Region families, closed back in June, but that’s only temporary.

"I had the business phone transferred to my home thinking it would only be a short time until the building was reopened," Williams said. "Although it took us nearly a full year, that phone never stopped ringing — even in the middle of the night. We really felt we were letting the community and foster families that we serve down. But the outpouring of support from the 300-plus families who generously helped us restock our store in the first two days after reopening was beyond comprehension. That solidified how grateful we are to be part of such a tight-knit community."

"As part of a continual review on how we can best meet our customers’ needs, we made the decision to close our store on Indianapolis Blvd in Highland," Dollar General spokeswoman Mary Kathryn Colbert said. "We plan to simply transfer all employees to nearby stores in the area, and we look forward to continuing to serve Highland residents with value and convenience at our other 21 store locations in Lake County."

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The neighboring Firehouse Subs in a strip mall outside the Shops on Main outdoor shopping center in Schererville also recently closed. Both opened in 2013, when the much-awaited lifestyle center did.

A new strip mall is being built near the Strack & Van Til supermarket at 109th Avenue and Broadway in Crown Point.

The Horticultural Research Institute’s mission is to direct, fund, promote, and communicate horticulture research. Here is a brief look at the projects receiving funding in 2019; watch for more details on some of these on GreenhouseGrower.com.

The gym chain claims its hour-long workouts burn up to 1,000 calories an hour and to continue to burn calories for 36 hours afterwards through “afterburn” that stimulates the metabolism. The Florida-based high-intensity, high-interval training gym now has more than 600 locations across the United States.

If only door “gap” measurements had been needed, the application could have been executed using In-Sight smart cameras. But the “flush” part of this system required that the doors and body panels be on the same plane. The profiler tool measures the Z-axis accurately to confirm that both body panels are on the same plane before the panels go to the painting station, according to a Cognex spokesperson.