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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.

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 find out how children and teens spent their summers.

On Tuesday, the county council sat down with two county commissioners to revise a joint letter asking the legislature to modify state tax law to allow more funding for a new jail. But some residents want the county to rethink the jail project, continuing debate that started in 2008.

Bloomington’s police department (BPD) announced the arrest of eight people in the area of Seminary Park, on a range of drug-related charges. A press conference with the mayor on housing and homelessness is set for Tuesday next week (July 29).

When the announcement came a month ago that 409 acres southeast of Bloomington had been donated to Monroe County by Nancy Huntington, the piece of land did not have a name. It does now, after county commissioners approved a resolution establishing the Monroe County Nature Preserve.