Dave Askins

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in December 2023. A bit less than half (36) of the 76 places that were inspected in December 2023 had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations

In a Friday mid-afternoon news release  (Jan. 19), Bloomington police have announced the arrest of a suspect in the shooting death of a 52-year-old man 10 days earlier, in an encampment on the city’s west side, near Wheeler Mission. According to the news release, a 41-year-old woman, Evelynn L.

At its Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved an annual resolution that authorizes allocations from the Community Development Block Grant program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This year, the total estimated grant amount is $855,868, with $556,314 going to physical improvements

At its Wednesday afternoon meeting, Monroe County’s capital improvement board of managers (CIB) took the actions recommended by a three-member committee for moving ahead with the Monroe Convention Center expansion project. One step was to authorize the issuance of an RFQ (request for qualifications) for a “construction manager as

The Monroe County Justice Building at 7th Street and College Avenue in downtown Bloomington is closed through the end of the week (Jan. 19). The closure is due to a problem with the heating system, according to a Wednesday announcement sent out through the county’s emergency alert system. The

Delivering the keynote address for the city of Bloomington’s Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration on Monday was Jesse Hagopian. The annual event is held at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Kirkwood Avenue in downtown Bloomington. Hagopian is an ethnic studies teacher at Seattle’s Garfield High School, who is