Alison Quackenbush

"No one person can be the civility police," said advisory human relations council chair Alison Quackenbush. "The mayor is not the civility police. I am not the civility police, nor is the AHRC."

The Valparaiso City Council is recognizing June as Pride Month. The council passed the resolution by a vote of six-to-one Monday, after some persuasion from the advisory human relations council.

Last week's Valparaiso mayoral election will leave a vacancy on the Valparaiso Community School Board, and some community members already have ideas of who should fill it. Jon Costas will have to give up his school board seat when he returns to the mayor's office in January.