Dave Askins

The daily schedules for Bloomington’s four high schools will not change before the 2025-26 school year, and even if they do, it’s not certain the result will be a unified schedule for all schools. What’s more, any decision on a schedule change will rest with the

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in September 2023. More than half of the 125 places that were inspected in September 2023 had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations were 16

In the fourth week of September, high school journalists at Bloomington High School South broke the story  that Monroe County Community School Corporation superintendent Jeff Hauswald was mulling a plan to unify the schedules of all high schools in the district. The headline in The Optimist, the student newspaper at

This past Tuesday, the Monroe County council voted to adopt the budget for 2024 on a 5–1 tally. Dissenting was Marty Hawk. Geoff McKim was absent. The total county budget for 2024 is $132,259,264, of which $59,251,842 is the general fund. Hawk still voted in

The monthly ridership numbers for Bloomington Transit were again a bright spot for the board of the public transportation agency at its meeting last Tuesday. September this year was the first time monthly ridership on BT fixed route buses had exceeded 300,000 passengers since the COVID-19 pandemic hit

At its meeting this past Monday, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) approved a $353,052 contract with Renascent for the demolition of 10 buildings south of 1st Street, in the vicinity of Fairview and Rogers streets. It’s part of the planned new Hopewell neighborhood that is supposed to be