Dave Askins

Funding for design of two projects that are meant to establish “gateways” to Bloomington got approval from the board of park commissioners at its regular Tuesday meeting. One of the sites where a gateway is to be constructed is the northern tip of Miller-Showers Park. The other is the

Late last year, a high-speed internet fiber-to-the-home project for Bloomington showed some signs of progress after starting in April 2016. In mid-November last year, Bloomington announced that it had about six weeks earlier signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Meridiam, an international player that

Over the last week, Miller-Showers Park on the north side of town, wedged between Walnut Street and College Avenue, has continued to see lots of bird activity. On Sunday, in the skies above the park, a red-winged blackbird was preemptively harassing a red-tailed hawk, to keep the

On Saturday, People’s Market launched its summer Vendorfest series in the southwest parking lot of Rev. Ernest D. Butler Park. About an hour after Saturday’s 10 a.m. opening, the overcast skies were spitting rain. But the first edition of the third-Saturday-of-the-month event was

A news release from Bloomington’s police department (BPD) on Friday announced that mobile roll calls will be conducted in neighborhoods, as a way to try to increase routine social and personal interactions between residents and police officers. When shifts start at 5:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.

At its Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved a raft of changes to the city’s unified development ordinance (UDO) that were in many cases purely technical in nature. But some of the changes were meant to support specific policy goals— like preventing massive buildings that have been called