Dave Askins

A precautionary boil water alert issued for all Monroe County residents on Saturday afternoon by city of Bloomington utilities had a Sunday morning impact on area food service establishments. Even though rank-and-file residents could make their own judgments about whether to follow the boil water advice, that was

As of about 3:25 p.m. on Saturday (Aug. 17) Monroe County residents are being advised to boil their water as a precaution, because of an IDEM (Indiana Indiana Department of Environmental Management) requirement that such an advisory be issued when drinking water standards are violated. The standard in

Depending on what the Monroe County county council does in the next six weeks, all residents of the county could see as much as a 0.19 point increase to the local income tax (LIT) rate that they currently pay. The higher tax would be effective starting on Jan. 1,

In a statement released Thursday evening, Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson has announced that the city of Bloomington will appeal the recent ruling of circuit court judge Nathan Nikirk, that the city’s annexation of Area 1A and Area 1B will not take place. Thursday’s announced  decision to appeal Nikirk’

At its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Monroe County’s capital improvement board (CIB) received three preliminary schematic designs for the planned expansion of the Monroe Convention Center at College Avenue and 3rd Street. The three design concepts are labeled City, Quarry, and Go Big. The existing facility includes about

Craig Cowden would like to sell the Monroe County government 53 acres of his land at Vernal Pike and Woodyard Road west of Bloomington, so that a new county jail can be built there. Cowden made his pitch at the regular meetings of the county council on Tuesday night and