The City of Hobart, Indiana, is suing a local restaurant owner after learning he breached a mortgage agreement for the purchase of the old Hobart Police Department building in the city’s downtown area (that’s downtown Hobart on the left), according to The Times of Northwest Indiana.

It’s a complicated story that is part of The Times’ larger investigation of corruption in Lake County’s tax sale process (see editorial below). It caught our eye for one reason. The city learned it was being cheated by reading notices published by Lake County, Indiana in a local newspaper. Here’s how the Times put it: