Dave Askins

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

“Our water tastes and smells like mold,” reads a complaint logged in the city’s uReport system on Sept. 15, 2021 by a city of Bloomington utilities (CBU) customer. Reports like that have been coming in from all parts of the city, CBU communications manager Holly McLauchlin told the B

Community service grants to 38 organizations totaling $135,400 were approved by Monroe County commissioners at their Wednesday morning meeting. The community service grants are named after a former county councilor, the late Sophia Travis. At Wednesday’s meeting, president of the board of commissioners, Julie Thomas, called it an

A settlement agreement approved by the court last week means that the owner of a house at 523 West 7th St. across from Fairview Elementary School will not be fined $83,500 for demolishing it about two years ago without the proper permit. It was Monroe County circuit court judge