Dave Askins

Any future modifications of the People’s Bank building at the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and Washington Street in downtown Bloomington will need approval from Bloomington’s historic preservation commission. On an 8–0 vote, Bloomington’s city council approved the building as a “notable” historic structure in its own

Monroe County will now own another 70 acres of land at the northwest side of the interchange of SR-46 and I-69. On Tuesday, the county council approved the $640,000 purchase of the land, which contains several limestone quarry holes. The purpose of the land acquisition is to

A 21-year-old woman was shot late Tuesday evening on the 1200 block of North Maple Street, according to a Wednesday afternoon news release from Bloomington police department (BPD). BPD is asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact detective Kevin Frank at (812) 349-3322. Just before

On Tuesday, Bloomington’s economic development commission (EDC) helped a potential deal between Paris-based Meridiam and the city of Bloomington take another step forward. Under the arrangement, Meridiam would construct a fiber-to-the-home open-access network offering symmetric 1-Gigabit service. Meridiam would offer symmetric 250-Megabit

A deal between a Paris-based infrastructure company and the city of Bloomington, to construct a fiber-to-the-home open-access network offering symmetric 1-Gigabit service, took a step forward Monday evening. On a unanimous vote, the city’s plan commission found that an already-approved redevelopment commission

Now pending is a deal between the city of Bloomington and Meridiam, a Paris-based infrastructure company, that would build a fiber-to-the-home network offering symmetric 1-Gigabit service, reaching at least 85-percent of the city. The city describes the deal in terms of a $50 million