Dave Askins

Bloomington’s director of parks and recreation, Paula McDevitt, is retiring after three and a half decades of service to the city. The announcement of McDevitt’s retirement was made at the start of Tuesday’s board of park commissioners meeting, by board president Kathleen Mills. McDevitt’s final day

After Tuesday’s meeting of Bloomington’s board of public works, it’s now not clear when work will start on the installation of a new gateway monolith at the north end of Miller-Showers Park. In connection with the monolith, public infrastructure improvements are planned in the general vicinity of

In the city council’s information packet for this Wednesday’s (Sept. 27) special meeting, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s administration  has provided responses to several questions  from councilmembers about the proposed 2024 budget The special meeting is the occasion of the formal first reading of the 2024 budget. Right

A response on Thursday to a records request made by The B Square a month earlier, shows that Bloomington’s 2024 proposed budget was influenced by a private letter to Bloomington mayor John Hamilton, with apparent wet signatures from all nine city council members. The letter asked that the mayor

In a Sept. 5, 2023 news release, the Bloomington police department (BPD) announced that officers would soon be piloting the use of electronic control weapons, commonly known as tasers. For Bloomington police officers, the tasers will be added to pepper spray and collapsible batons as options that are less lethal

For more than a year, and probably much longer, the city of Bloomington has been trying to convince Joe Davis to take a more conventional approach to his South Washington Street house and yard. But Davis describes himself as an “unconventional guy.” Parked in the backyard with building materials stacked