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Friday’s 38-0 score in favor of the Edgewood Mustangs in their home opener against the Mitchell Bluejackets could have been even more lopsided. That's if the team had not committed some penalties and done a better job giving its quarterback time to find receivers down the field.

On Friday (Aug. 22) a man was killed when he was hit by a train on the railroad bridge over I-69—which is south of the 3rd Street overpass and north of the Bloomfield Road (2nd Street) overpass. That’s according to a news release issued by Bloomington police on Saturday morning.

The Bloomington High School North Cougars were outscored 28–14 by the visiting Mooresville Pioneers in their first game of the season.

Bloomington High School South produced almost 500 yards of offense on Friday and cruised to a 42–7 season-opening win over the visiting Columbus East Olympians in front of full bleachers at Huff Field.

At its regular meeting on Wednesday (Aug. 20) Monroe County’s capital improvement board, which is overseeing the expansion of the Bloomington convention center, received updates on: branding and logo development; plans for public art in the new facility; and progress on the associated hotel project

Signs posted at the Monroe County justice building in downtown Bloomington say that no initial hearings and no traffic court will be held today (Friday, Aug. 22). That’s an indication that the county prosecutor’s office is closed. The cause was a positive test for a toxic mold.

Recent testing of the real estate that Bloomington Transit is eyeing for the location of its new operations center resulted in clean results for 9 of 10 borings, but a positive test for PCBs in the 10th boring. BT will now be doing 10 more borings to assess the extent of the contamination.