Dave Askins

On Friday night, downtown Bloomington was lit up brighter than Rudolph’s nose on Christmas Eve, and the square was packed with people, spilling onto Kirkwood Avenue, which was shut down for the occasion. It was the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving extravaganza to flip the switch on the strands of

The photos above were taken inside of 90 minutes on the morning of Thanksgiving Day 2023. To save future archivists one chore, that was Nov. 23, 2023. The chronological sequence starts with a red-tailed hawk perched on the WFHB antenna just across from the 4th Street parking garage in

On Tuesday night, Bloomington’s board of public works denied the appeal by Joe Davis for a citation by the city—for what the city staff considers to be violations of the health and sanitation parts of city code (Title 6) at his South Washington Street property. In a separate

For the last two and a half years, Bloomington’s main fire station on 4th Street has sat unused for fire operations.  That’s because it was damaged in the flood of June 2021. But construction work on the existing 4th Street station, to put Station 1 back into service,

In an open letter dated Nov. 9,  mayor-elect Kerry Thomson made a clarion call to Bloomington residents for them to participate in city government. Thomson wrote to residents that her administration would “make it easy for them to participate in their government.” She added: “That starts now—with you.

At its regular meeting last Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council approved its side of the interlocal agreement that will control the working relationship among local government entities as they collaborate on an expansion of the Monroe Convention Center. The vote was 8–0. Kate Rosenbarger was absent. Signing the agreement