Dave Askins

A $40,000 feasibility study for the construction of a new jail was approved by Monroe County commissioners at their regular Wednesday morning meeting. The work will be done by the RQAW Corporation. Such a study is required under Indiana state law, before a new jail can be constructed or

Griffin Realty will be marketing and generating bids for Bloomington’s 3rd Street police station, in connection with a notice of sale approved by the board of public works in the last week of September. According to the professional services agreement that Bloomington mayor John Hamilton was expected to sign

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