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The first meeting of the year for the Monroe County convention and visitors commission (CVC) was relatively upbeat. It was held on Wednesday at the Monroe Convention Center. The revenue report for the county’s five-percent innkeeper’s tax showed a a 55-percent increase for the first two months of

When Bloomington’s 7-Line separated bicycle lane was built in 2021, five stop signs for east-west 7th Street traffic were removed,  under an ordinance enacted by the city council. The stops for 7th Street traffic at Morton, Lincoln, Washington, Grant, and Dunn streets were removed, but those for the north-south

Just after the first of the year, the three Monroe County commissioners made a trip to Arizona to have a look at jail facilities there. The trip came in connection with the work of the community justice response committee (CJRC), which is the group the commissioners established to address the

In 2019, Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) paid $4,995,000 for most of the downtown block that formerly housed the Bunger & Robertson law firm. It was a move that put a significant sum behind the city’s preferred site for the planned expansion of the Monroe Convention Center.

The first live ballots are now headed into the hands of voters in Bloomington’s May 2 municipal primary election. On Thursday and Friday, absentee ballots were sent to the 28 registered voters who have requested them so far. That’s based on the absentee voter list distributed by Monroe

The city of Bloomington plans either to hire a contractor or send its own staff to the property at 530 Washington St. to bring it into compliance with a local law. The law says you can’t “throw, place, or scatter any garbage, recyclable materials or yard waste over or