Mike Hutton

Baltimore, Valparaiso

Content Writer at Merkle

Content Writer, Dentsu Creative, Under Armour. Freelancer, sports, business, real estate. https://t.co/DYyXEhy3fc Email:[email protected].

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DIGITAL FEATURE: The Finest Crags in the UK & Ireland: Lower Sharpnose

1 week ago | ukclimbing.com | Mike Hutton

The Finest Crags in the UK & Ireland Lower Sharpnose, Cornwall in association with Layers of soft shale known locally as Culm have been compressed with the harder sandstone and over many years the softer rock has eroded, leaving behind these proudly standing features. Mother nature has sculptured an extreme outdoor climbing gym along one of the most beautiful parts of the UK coastline. By far the best crag on the Culm Coast some might say.
TJMS Science Olympiad team enters new era with retirement of coaches Rich Bender, Carol Haller

Nov 16, 2024 | chicagotribune.com | Mike Hutton

Rich Bender is trying to rewire his brain. The former Thomas Jefferson Science Olympiad co-coach, along with Carol Haller, has his late fall and early afternoon winters free for the first time since he graduated from college. They are no longer tethered to their study lab, strategizing about events like “Helicopter” and “Write It Do It.”The endless stream of practices for six months, every day after school from 3 to 4:30 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for six months, are over.
Longtime Griffith airport owner, race car driver Paul Goldsmith dies at 98

Sep 13, 2024 | chicagotribune.com | Mike Hutton

If you ask his friends at Griffith/Merrillville Airport and the thousands of students he trained to be a pilot, Paul Goldsmith was a Hall of Fame flight instructor and airport mechanic. The rest of the world knew Goldsmith as a Hall of Fame race car driver. Goldsmith, who was 98, died on Sept. 6 in Munster. Jim Butts, who worked with Goldsmith for over 50 years at the airport, said his knowledge and teaching skills made him one of the finest teachers around.
5 Side Hustle to Full-Time Freelance Job Tips

Aug 9, 2024 | bestfreelancetips.com | Mike Hutton

More than 36% of adults have a side hustle in 2024, according to a bankrate.com survey. If you have a side hustle while working full time, you’ve likely considered making your side hustle a full-time career. What’s a side hustle? It’s a second, nonprimary job or source of income for a working adult. Here are some statistics on side hustles, according to a . A side hustler spends between 5 and 10 hours per week on their second job.
How to Avoid Freelance Burnout

May 12, 2024 | bestfreelancetips.com | Mike Hutton |Freelance Jobs Mindset

My freelance burnout used to manifest itself in a specific way. Complete, overwhelming, panic that could last for hours. This anxiety stemmed from too much work, intense deadlines, and ambiguity about how to complete an assignment successfully for a client. Freelance burnout is different for everyone but no freelancer is immune to it.
Tom Dakich — A debt called home • Northwest Indiana Business Magazine

Jan 31, 2024 | nwindianabusiness.com | Mike Hutton

Tom Dakich always has been a forward-thinking leader. When he was a high school student at Andrean in Merrillville, he wasn’t that interested in sports — except for golf. His younger brother, Dan, was a star basketball player at Indiana and his dad played college basketball. Sports were a big part of his family. Not for Tom. “I didn’t want to play,” he said.
Knight left impressions beyond basketball

Nov 4, 2023 | chicagotribune.com | Mike Hutton Post-Tribune |Mike Hutton

Everybody that had any connection with Bob Knight has a story. Or even two. Former Bishop Noll boys basketball coach Jack Gabor has dozens of them. They’re indelibly tucked away in his memory bank, where he gets to cherish them forever. Knight was a large man in every way. A former 6-foot-5 reserve for Ohio State, Knight looked bigger in person than his height. He had big ideas, a big appetite and an outsized sense of responsibility. Knight won three national titles — 1976, 1981 and 1987.
Dish Restaurant moving to former Tony’s Place on Lincolnway

Sep 9, 2023 | chicagotribune.com | Mike Hutton

The Dish Restaurant is on the move and its new home is a familiar place. Costas Restaurant Group announced on its Facebook page last month that it bought the iconic Tony’s Pizza Restaurant Building on Lincolnway in Valparaiso. After 68 years of business, Tony’s served its last pizza on August 21. According to the post, CRG will split the space into two restaurants.
Tony’s Place Pizza closes after 68 years

Sep 9, 2023 | chicagotribune.com | Mike Hutton

They filed into the restaurant one last time. There were hundreds of customers. A line stretched over a block on Lincolnway for that final night, curling around the corner, up Michigan Street. The wait to get inside was three hours. It was like going to a wake and a party simultaneously. Inside Tony’s Place Pizza in downtown Valparaiso, some women were sobbing. Others were there with their families, getting one last picture before it closed. The bar was buzzing with old friends sharing stories.
Hutton: A shared bond among strangers

Aug 24, 2023 | chicagotribune.com | Mike Hutton Post-Tribune |Mike Hutton

Crown Point football coach Craig Buzea didn’t know if this day would come. He was too busy fighting for his life. Buzea was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia on December 6, 2019. It’s all a blur to him. The diagnosis, the subsequent treatment and then the stem cell transplant in July of 2020 are hazy memories. At the time, Buzea, who spent 16 years coaching at Portage and Michigan City, was the football coach at Homewood-Flossmoor. He started at Crown Point in 2021. “I don’t remember a lot of it.