Dave Askins

Awarded to E&B Paving by Bloomington’s board of public works on Tuesday was a $873,378 construction contract that includes the Hawthorne-Weatherstone neighborhood greenway project. The project is a north-south connection running through central Bloomington, between 3rd Street on the north end to Hillside Drive on the

For at least the next two years, the city of Bloomington will be paying less for the disposal of the refuse that its sanitation crews collect from curbside carts that residents set out every week. Under the terms of the two-year contract approved by Bloomington’s board of public works

In a news release issued early Wednesday evening, the Bloomington police department (BPD) announced the arrest of 35-year-old Byron Gregory Johnson on two charges of robbery. The charges stem from two separate incidents, both on Tuesday (Dec. 19). The first took place in the wee hours of Tuesday, around 1

In a news release issued on Wednesday morning, Bloomington mayor-elect Kerry Thomson announced additional appointments that she is making for her administration, which starts in a little under two weeks, on Jan. 1, 2024. In Thomson’s administration, Bloomington’s city attorney will be Larry Allen, who currently serves as

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in November of 2023. More than half (40) of the 71 places that were inspected in November had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations were another

At its regular meeting on Monday, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) let four resolutions die that would have approved separate construction contract awards for the Showers West renovation and remodeling project. That does not mean the contracts themselves are dead. It just means that the contracts, which totaled around $12.