Dave Askins

At its Monday meeting, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) signed off on recommendations for spending $1.1 million of federal community development block grant (CDBG) money for 2022. The recommendations came from a citizens advisory committee. The money will go to more than a dozen different non-profits—for social services

A four-story building with 34 apartments, to be constructed on South Walnut Street just a bit north of Seminary Park, was approved by Bloomingoton’s plan commission at its Monday night meeting. It’s the site of the former Player’s Pub, and before that Boxman’s Restaurant. In early

Getting unanimous approval from Bloomington’s plan commission on Monday night was a new plat for most of the area bounded by 1st and 2nd streets on the north and south, and Morton and Rogers streets on the east and west. A plat is a map that shows how the

The snow, which landed on top of an icy mix, stopped falling Friday morning. Among Bloomington’s vital bits of infrastructure that were left frozen: downtown parking meters. By Saturday they had not thawed, and some drivers resorted to leaving notes on their windshields. The quickly jotted out messages were

When some Bloomington residents came together to engage the public process connected to the city’s rezoning effort a couple of years ago, they called themselves the Hopewell Group. They took the moniker from the hospital that was opened about 120 years ago by the Local Council of Women at

The winter storm that closed down Bloomington and Monroe County government offices on Thursday and Friday left around 5 inches of snow on top of a layer of frozen crud that began falling late on Wednesday. The National Weather Service snowfall map  put Bloomington in the 4-to-6-inch band of snowfall