6th Street & Grant Street
Bloomington PRIDE is crowded. This shot is looking south along Grant Street from 6th Street towards Kirkwood Avenue.
Dave Askins
Police: Man struck, killed by train on bridge over I-69 on Bloomington’s west side
On Friday (Aug. 22) a man was killed when he was hit by a train on the railroad bridge over I-69—which is south of the 3rd Street overpass and north of the Bloomfield Road (2nd Street) overpass. That’s according to a news release issued by Bloomington police on Saturday morning.
CIB briefed on branding, public art, hotel plans for Bloomington convention center expansion
At its regular meeting on Wednesday (Aug. 20) Monroe County’s capital improvement board, which is overseeing the expansion of the Bloomington convention center, received updates on: branding and logo development; plans for public art in the new facility; and progress on the associated hotel project
Prosecutor’s office, courts closed after ‘bad mold’ found in Monroe County justice building
Signs posted at the Monroe County justice building in downtown Bloomington say that no initial hearings and no traffic court will be held today (Friday, Aug. 22). That’s an indication that the county prosecutor’s office is closed. The cause was a positive test for a toxic mold.
PCB detection in 1 of 10 tests prompts more borings at possible location of new Bloomington Transit facility
Recent testing of the real estate that Bloomington Transit is eyeing for the location of its new operations center resulted in clean results for 9 of 10 borings, but a positive test for PCBs in the 10th boring. BT will now be doing 10 more borings to assess the extent of the contamination.
Employee on mold at Monroe County justice building: “Band-Aids on the Titanic, telling us ... not to worry about the icebergs.”
On Thursday at least 70 county employees packed into Courtroom 313 to get a briefing from a contractor on the status of the mold investigation in their workplace. Some of them left the meeting dissatisfied that the county government had been doing everything in its power to ensure their safety.
Aug. 21, 2025: Mold, annexation, eviction, weekend weather
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