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It will take another month before the sidewalk along the north side of 3rd Street from Walnut Street up to the B-Line Trail is open again. At Tuesday night’s meeting of Bloomington’s board of public works a contract increase with Specialties Company was approved, from $17,500 to $86,500.

Monroe County’s plans to design a new jail were set back for months because of cost estimates that grew to more than $260 million by mid-spring, well over the planned budget. A meeting for public presentation of schematics set for May 29 didn’t take place and might not happen until Aug. 19 or later.

According to a Bloomington police department news release, on Sunday night, a 28-year-old Bloomington man was arrested for two different violent attacks—one for a domestic situation on Heatherwood Lane, and another one shortly after that involving an motorist on Leonard Springs Road.

Summer in Monroe County isn’t just a break from school—it’s a time for young residents to learn and grow in different ways. The B Square visited half a dozen summer camps around Bloomington and met campers, counselors, and staff, to learn how children and teens spent their summers.

This past Thursday (July 23), around 100 people packed into the back room of The Bishop Bar in downtown Bloomington to hear three 15-minute talks—about old-time radio, queer bugs, and a couple of South Korean filmmakers who were kidnapped to North Korea and forced to direct movies there.

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The former General Electric Company site, north of 3rd Street on Curry Pike, which was purchased in 2017 by Cook Group, has now been sold to Simtra BioPharma Solutions.