Photos: Monroe County Fair rodeo, from mutton busting to barrel racing

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.