6th Street & Walnut Street

Two eggs laid in nest early morning. By afternoon the parent pigeons had come to incubate them.

Bloomington’s RDC prepared for a final procedural step toward closing on a Trades District hotel site, authorizing officials to sign documents through April 10. The routine move comes as a 160-room project, approved earlier this year, advances toward a $1.2M closing.

Monroe County appears to be treating the Thomson PUD as its current focus for a possible new jail site, even as financing questions and legal pressure from the ACLU keep the overall picture far from settled. A joint executive session of commissioners and councilors is set for March 30.