Dave Askins

Monroe County commissioner Penny Githens has announced a run for the District 62 seat in the Indiana legislature’s house of representatives. Elections for the 100 state house seats take place in 2022. The formal announcement came on Sunday afternoon, at a gathering of around 40 people at the Monroe

On Saturday at Monroe County fairgrounds, a pumpkin was flung downrange by the trebuchet of team Tetanus Express. It landed 987 feet away. That was a record for Bloomington’s Pumpkin Launch. Just an hour before the noon event started, a steady drizzle was falling, driven by a 10-mph

A four-person committee that is supposed to advise the county commissioners on precinct and district boundaries for Monroe County is looking to make its first set of recommendations early next week. Appointed by the Monroe County board of commissioners in mid-October, the committee hopes to settle on precinct

Monroe County’s mask mandate won’t be lifted next Wednesday. That’s because it’s a mathematical impossibility, based on the health order’s criteria for termination. In order for Monroe County’s mask mandate to be lifted, the weekly cases per 100,000 population have to drop below

Friday morning sometime after 9 a.m., I’m heading to Monroe County’s convention center at 3rd and College to check out the quilts. They’re displayed as part of the “Quilts from the Heartland” show hosted by the Bloomington Quilters Guild. The show runs two days, Friday and

On Wednesday night, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton’s roughly $107 million budget for 2022 was approved on a unanimous vote of the city council. Two weeks ago some city councilmembers had threatened to vote against it. After expressing discontent with the mayor’s 2022 budget at their Oct. 13 meeting,