Dave Askins

No decision was made Monday afternoon on the appeal filed by Seven Oaks Classical School, which challenged a $250 citation it had received from Monroe County’s department of health for an alleged violation of the county’s Aug. 5 mask mandate. The mask mandate says that when community spread

A roughly tenth-of-an-acre lot at 605 S. Madison St. was approved for purchase by Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) at its regular Monday meeting. On the lot stands a concrete block building constructed in 1960, that is currently leased for document storage by Centerstone, a nonprofit that

On Saturday, Bloomington’s Bryan Park basketball courts served as the venue for the annual Black y Brown Arts Festival. It’s described on the city of Bloomington’s website as “a celebration and showcase of African, African-American, Hispanic, Latinx, and Native American creative arts and artists…” Artists had

In Monroe County, the numbers of positive COVID-19 cases, and hospitalized patients are still high. That news was buffered a bit on Friday by an announcement from county health administrator Penny Caudill about a local testing center. It was hoped to launch at the beginning of the month, and

Purchase agreements for land with several quarry holes, at the northwest corner of the interchange of SR-46 and I-69, were approved by county commissioners at their regular Wednesday meeting. The purpose of the land acquisition is to establish the location as a kind of outdoor limestone museum that

Just one of eight proposed areas for annexation was put to a vote by Bloomington’s nine-member city council on Wednesday night. Councilmembers voted 6–3 to make Area 1A on Bloomington’s west side a part of Bloomington. Dissenting were Dave Rollo, Susan Sandberg, and Ron Smith. Before