Dave Askins

In a one-sentence statement, Thomas Sharp has resigned his position as health officer for Monroe County, effective on April 30. The board of health has appointed Clark Brittain as the new health officer, which is pending approval by the board of county commissioners. Based on the health department’s

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in March. Just under half of the 88 places that were inspected in March had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations were 17 establishments. Recording

Monday’s meeting of Monroe County’s community justice response committee (CJRC) was the last one of the full committee—at least for a while. County commissioners voted at their Wednesday work session to “suspend” future CJRC meetings, and instead to form subgroups to focus on specific issues, like judicial

At a Wednesday morning forum, the three candidates for the Democratic Party’s nomination for Bloomington mayor talked with Cook Group president Pete Yonkman about the job of mayor, jobs in general, and economic development. The forum was hosted by the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation at the Monroe Convention Center.

Four more battery electric buses have been ordered by Bloomington Transit (BT) with a total cost of $4.5 million. Approval of the bus order came at Tuesday’s regular monthly meeting of BT’s five-member board. BT general manager John Connell told the board that the expected delivery

A significant bit of news out of Monday’s meeting of the community justice response committee (CJRC) was an announcement from the public mic by Bloomington’s public engagement director Kaisa Goodman. Goodman told the committee that a tour of some county-owned land south of Catalent had been arranged