Somebody was posting the other day that the "219" was the Region, Wikipedia shows the region being much larger than just Lake and Porter County. If the region consists of the Times circulation area that would cover half of Jasper and Newton Counties as well. Rensselaer has had several wrestlers take part in the braggin rights dual over the years. I never considered Rensselaer to be part of the Region, but there are way too many defenitions.
Here is what typing in "the region" into a wikipedia search turned up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Indiana