Dave Askins

A potential alley “swap” that would be crucial to construction of about 50 new apartments off 7th Street  is a possibility that Peerless Development is still trying to sort out. At its Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council did not take up its part of the swap, which would be

At Thursday afternoon’s meeting of the Monroe County election board, county clerk Nicole Browne reported to her colleagues that she was “a little disheartened” about the early voting turnout so far for the Nov. 8 election. Election supervisor Karen Wheeler confirmed that the early voting numbers this year are

Stop signs requiring traffic on Maxwell Lane to halt at Sheridan Drive have been approved by Bloomington’s city council on a 6–2 vote with one abstention. The additional stop signs make the intersection at Maxwell Lane and Sheridan Drive an all-way stop. Currently it’s a two-

If Bloomington residents smell gasoline inside their homes, they should ventilate the area by opening windows and avoid an open flame. That’s the advice in a news release from the city of Bloomington issued in the early morning hours of Tuesday. According to the news release residents who have

On Monday, the city of Bloomington released an arts feasibility study done by Trahan Architects, which was commissioned by mayor John Hamilton’s administration. A key recommendation from Trahan was for the city to keep the Waldron building on Walnut Street as a permanent city arts venue—not just for

Next Wednesday’s meeting of the Bloomington city council (Nov. 2) will likely feature a renewed consideration of a request by Peerless Development to vacate an east-west alley on the old Johnson’s Creamery building. According to a memo in the council’s nearly 500-page meeting information packet,