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Editor’s Note: Summer in Bloomington is over

Editor’s Note: Summer in Bloomington is over

Labor Day weekend, Bloomington’s 4th Street Festival, music and dancing all point toward summer’s end. But a typewritten poem about the courthouse hawk and fish gives the season one last gift, and captures a piece of what makes Bloomington home.

Editor’s note: Proposed new Bloomington logo looks like a butt

Bloomington paid $95,000 for a new visual identity that is polished but generic—and whose giant “B” looks unmistakably like a butt. The city council should use its power of the purse to stop the administration from spending even more to put it everywhere.

Editor’s notebook: A two-wheeled Bloomington intro for IU students, townies alike

Editor’s notebook: A two-wheeled Bloomington intro for IU students, townies alike

Bloomington’s Aug. 25 Welcome Week bike ride offers students and newcomers a two-wheeled introduction to the city: grocery stores, parks, trails, Kirkwood and downtown, plus bike-on-bus practice and a pedal-powered smoothie. One additional piece of advice: Look up for the hawks.

Editor’s Notebook: Trojan Horse not dead, just moving up the road

Editor’s Notebook: Trojan Horse not dead, just moving up the road

The Trojan Horse will leave its longtime Kirkwood corner for Ellettsville in August. That’s the sad news confirmed by veteran server Pat on Friday night.

Editor’s Notebook: A pair of hawks, another year of The B Square, things are looking up

Editor’s Notebook: A pair of hawks, another year of The B Square, things are looking up

A Saturday search for Bloomington’s red-tailed hawks led from the courthouse square to a pine by Franklin Hall—and to a reflection on spring, local rhythms, and the readers who keep The B Square Bulletin aloft a year after its relaunch.

Editor’s Notebook: Embrace our shared geography, please do not let me die with stickers left over

Editor’s Notebook: Embrace our shared geography, please do not let me die with stickers left over

Christmas week is quiet in Bloomington, giving the editor time to confront an envelope of unused B Square stickers. There’s no form or QR code—just a bag of stickers. See me out and about around town, say “Hey Dave, gimme a sticker,” and you’ll get one.

Editor’s Notebook: Standing with the Indiana Daily Student by sharing the load

Editor’s Notebook: Standing with the Indiana Daily Student by sharing the load

Yesterday, the Indiana Daily Student broke the news that the student media director had been fired. What can The B Square do to help? We have set up guidelines that can allow outlets like the IDS to use B Square reporting like a local wire service.