Dave Askins

The trademark blue former NAPA building at 3rd and Walnut streets, just south of the new parking garage and west of the downtown transit center, is the new home to Monroe County’s voting operations. Tuesday was the first day of in-person early voting for the May 3 primary elections.

On Monday afternoon, The B Square got a peek inside Monroe County’s new election operations building. It’s the former NAPA building at the corner of 3rd and Walnut streets. The facility is ready to go for the start of in-person early voting, according to Monroe County election supervisor

On Saturday, the Monroe County branch of the NAACP held its 42nd Freedom Fund Banquet in Shreve Hall at Ivy Tech on the west side of Bloomington. The banquet is an annual fundraiser that supports the branch’s activities including its scholarship program. The NAACP was founded in 1909, and

A series of changes to optimize bus routes that were planned for 2020 implementation, but were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are now back under consideration by Bloomington Transit. Highlights include: the consolidation of Routes 1 South and 7 Express into a single route to be called Route 7; and

On Thursday, Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC) voted to approve a certificate of appropriateness (COA) for the demolition of the Johnson’s Creamery smokestack down to 60 feet. No conditions are attached to the COA. The commission weighed the idea of requiring the owner to propose a way to

At a special meeting on Wednesday, Bloomington’s board of park commissioners kicked off a process to issue $5.8 million worth of bonds to fund several projects. Most of them are non-motorized transportation projects. The one clear exception is a $25,000 project to replace gasoline-powered with electric-powered equipment.