Dave Askins

The civically-aware segment of the Comedy Attic’s audience on Wednesday night knew that the club’s emcee, Brad Wilhelm, is not a candidate for city office in Bloomington this year—even if Abby Troughton was on stage wearing a T-shirt promoting Wilhelm as mayor. The mayor’s

The Beacon is traveling around Bloomington by public bus this summer, as a way of trying out Bloomington Transit’s new smartphone passes. I made one trip on Route 3 to complete an errand to Bloomington Hardware. There I purchased a gadget for grabbing things at a distance. The business

Lake Monroe water levels have started to drop. According to U.S. Army Corps of Engineer gauges, on July 9 at 6 a.m. the water level was 550.81 feet above sea level. A little more than a week ago, on July 1 at 6 a.m., the lake

At Monday’s meeting—when some plan commissioners questioned their own legal authority to act on the petition—no decision was made on the city of Bloomington’s proposal to build a replacement parking structure at the 4th and Walnut site. The current garage, evaluated as structurally unsound, has sat

At its Monday meeting, exactly eight months after Bloomington’s plan commission gave its initial approval of the city’s transportation plan, commissioners approved 40 amendments to the plan made by the common council. The transportation plan, with final approval from the plan commission, now replaces the 2002 Master Thoroughfare

Given site plan approval by Bloomington’s plan commission at its Monday meeting was The Mill, a five-building, 130-unit apartment complex in a development in the southwest part of town, near Summit Elementary. Construction is expected to start by August or September. Completion of the project is targeted