Dave Askins

Community service grants to 25 organizations totaling $151,220 were approved by Monroe County councilors at their Tuesday evening work session. The community service grants, which have been made annually since 2008, are named after a former county councilor, the late Sophia Travis. This year’s total figure is about

Bloomington Transit’s board of directors has adopted a $35-million budget for 2023, which is more than double the figure for 2022. Action to adopt the budget came at the board’s regular monthly meeting on Tuesday. The big increase is fueled by revenues that include $20.2 million

At Monday night’s meeting of Bloomington’s redistricting commission, just one of the proposed maps drew the initial attention of the five members. By the end of the night, based on a public comment, they’d added a second one to the mix for further consideration. But the second

The third meeting of Bloomington’s redistricting advisory commission is set for Monday (Aug. 22) at 7:30 p.m. in the McCloskey Conference Room at city hall. The city council districts are supposed to be redrawn every 10 years, in the second year following the decennial census, in order

If they weren’t already in town, Indiana University students arrived this week in Bloomington to start the fall term next Monday. On Thursday morning, if any them looked skyward in the downtown area, they might have seen a red-tailed hawk perched on top of the Monroe County courthouse.

The formal launch of Go Bloomington is set for Sept. 6 at 2 p.m. That’s the branding that has been chosen for the city’s effort to promote transportation options that are different from driving alone. It’s meant to help the city achieve a number of goals,