Dave Askins

The first live ballots are now headed into the hands of voters in Bloomington’s May 2 municipal primary election. On Thursday and Friday, absentee ballots were sent to the 28 registered voters who have requested them so far. That’s based on the absentee voter list distributed by Monroe

The city of Bloomington plans either to hire a contractor or send its own staff to the property at 530 Washington St. to bring it into compliance with a local law. The law says you can’t “throw, place, or scatter any garbage, recyclable materials or yard waste over or

Late Wednesday afternoon, Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté released an update on efforts to clean up the jail facility. The emailed update was sent to county councilors, county commissioners, members of the community justice response committee, and several other community members. The update included a link to several before-after photos

This week Monroe County’s health department released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in February. More than half (47) of the 81 places that were inspected in February had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations were 15 establishments.

A new position at Monroe County’s jail has been created to support new sheriff Ruben Marté’s effort to make the jail clean and sanitary, and to keep it that way. At their regular Tuesday meeting, county councilors voted unanimously in favor of creating a new job called “jail

For now at least, a proposed mural that says “All Lives Matter” will not be painted on Kirkwood Avenue just west of Indiana Avenue in downtown Bloomington. Bloomington’s three-member board of public works has unanimously denied a special events application from Turning Point USA at Indiana University, to paint