Dave Askins

It’s a planned $50 million investment to create a fiber-to-the-home network for most of Bloomington. That’s the way an announcement from Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s office on Friday afternoon framed some local broadband internet access news. According to the city of Bloomington news release, the company making

Wildlife drama unfolded Saturday evening at Miller-Showers Park, which is wedged between Walnut Street and College Avenue on Bloomington’s north side. In the early evening hours, a great blue heron flew in and landed near the east bank of the southernmost stormwater detention pond, towards the spillway to the

At its Friday meeting, the three-member Monroe County election board voted to accept as valid 19 out of the 32 provisional ballots from the Tuesday, May 3 primary elections. Provisional ballots are those that are cast by a voter, but set aside due to some question about whether they are

A little more than a week after Tuesday’s primary elections concluded in Monroe County, work has started on preparation for voting in the Nov. 8 general election. On Thursday morning, the county’s new election operations building, at the corner of 3rd and Walnut streets, started a planned cosmetic

The past practice used by Monroe County to make a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for employees could lead to a historic fiscal impact on the 2023 budget. That’s because the county’s fiscal body—the seven-member county council—has typically tried to key its COLA to the percentage

At its Tuesday evening meeting, Bloomington’s board of public works voted to affirm an order from the city’s housing and neighborhood development (HAND) department, which requires AT&T to remove its communications equipment from near the top of the Johnson’s Creamery smokestack—by midnight on May