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“David [Wolfe Bender] has decided to withdraw his candidacy for Bloomington Common Council District 6.” That’s the opening line of a letter received by Monroe County’s election board from Bender’s attorney, Manny Herceg, with the Taft-Jaffe law firm. An Indiana University student, Bender is the sole Democrat

Doris Sims is the Bloomington city council’s appointee to the five-member board of City of Bloomington Capital Improvement, Inc. (CBCI)—the new nonprofit recently formed by mayor John Hamilton’s administration. Sims is former director of Bloomington’s housing and neighborhood development (HAND) department. She retired from that role

The final decision has not been made, but DLZ is likely to be the firm that Monroe County uses to master plan and design a new jail facility. At a Wednesday morning work session, Monroe County commissioners received a brief report from a committee that they created to review three

The property where The Great Wall restaurant formerly stood on North Walnut Street, across from the northern tip of Miller-Showers Park, is now the site of a proposed 8-story student-oriented apartment building. The building would include a mix of 3-bedroom, 4-bedroom and 5-bedroom apartments, for a total of 426 bedrooms.

At their work session this Wednesday (March 8), Monroe County commissioners are supposed to receive a recommendation on which of three firms to select, to design and build a new jail. The three firms responded to a request for proposals (RFQ) issued by the commissioners. Reviewing and scoring the three

This year, parts of Kirkwood Avenue in downtown Bloomington will again be closed to automobile traffic—for six months from April 3 through Oct. 1. Again this year, residents and visitors to downtown Bloomington will also notice orange water-filled traffic barriers marking off some on-street parking spaces, so that restaurants