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These are short one- or two-sentence items, often including a photo, filed by anyone who sends in an item—by text message, email, or phone call. [734-645-2633] They're meant to be factual observations about the world outside the observer's own head, in the course of their ordinary travels through our community.

Kirkwood Avenue & Washington Street (Clash Gallery)

Kirkwood Avenue & Washington Street (Clash Gallery)

(Video included!) Jack Kelly (fiddle) and Liv LaFluv (guitar) busk in front of Clash Gallery. They are newly arrived in Bloomington from California. Kelly’s grandparents met at IU, raised his mom in Chicago, and she later moved to Belfast where she met Jack’s dad.

Kirkwood Avenue & Dunn Street

Kirkwood Avenue & Dunn Street

Crimson Investments, LLC now owns the Bicycle Garage building. The shop has moved to 1112. S. Morton on the B-Line south of Cardinal Spirits. The ”Black Lives Matter” mural has been whitewashed over and a new IU football-themed mural is currently in progress.

6th Street & Washington Street

6th Street & Washington Street

(Includes slow-motion video for your viewing pleasure!) At the construction site next to the CVS on Kirkwood Avenue, they are running gravel with a conveyor. It's sending rock flying in a steady arc to land where its needed.

Bloomington city hall

Bloomington city hall

In city council chambers before the start of tonight’s work session, temporary council staff attorney Larry Allen extracts a spider from the nook of a chair armrest using a clipboard, and escorts it from the building, releasing it unharmed into to the outside world.

Monroe County Public Library

Monroe County Public Library

Candidates for Indiana's 9th U.S. Congressional District at a forum discuss science, technology, and the environment. The forum was organized by the Indiana University Concerned Scientists coalition and hosted at the Monroe County Public Library auditorium.

B-Line & Rogers Street

B-Line & Rogers Street

Sign at Bloomington Iron & Metal indicates notice of a hearing—it’s for the site plan review of a 360 apartments with a total of 760 bedrooms, distributed across three buildings. It’s in front of plan commission on April 13, 2026.

17th Street & Vernal Pike

17th Street & Vernal Pike

West 17th and Vernal Pike (where 17th becomes Vernal Pike) looking south along North Crescent. Right: Where Fountain Drive intersects the (new) B-Line, looking along the B-Line and the railroad, towards Adams Street.