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Under a new policy, when multi-use trails in Bloomington are closed—because of work by contractors or a dangerous situation—a detour has to be provided that gives trail users a convenient alternate route. The policy was adopted by Bloomington’s board of park commissioners at its regular meeting on

“It looks like that’s not even the United States of America.” That was Monroe County’s new jail commander Kyle Gibbons talking about a photograph he had displayed for Monday’s meeting of the community justice response committee (CJRC). It was from a slide deck he’d prepared, in

“Who the hell do you people think you are? You’re not the White House!” That was Dareal Ruble speaking from the public mic at last Wednesday’s meeting of the city council. He was reacting to a resolution on the meeting agenda that called for an immediate end to

Temperatures on Friday night for the Freezefest 2023 Ice Battle were a smidgen warmer than freezing—right around 33 F degrees. The competition unfolded on Upland Brewing’s outdoor stage north of the parking lot off 11th Street. Starting with blank blocks of ice, two teams of ice carvers from

In December, Bloomington’s city council unanimously rejected a rezone request for some land in the southwestern tip of the city, where county commissioners had proposed building a new jail. But planning for the possible construction of a new Monroe County jail continues—as a response to the reports from

Wednesday at noon was the deadline for political campaign committees to file their finance paperwork—the CFA-4. Hitting that deadline were all three declared candidates for mayor of Bloomington: Don Griffin, Susan Sandberg, and Kerry Thomson. Raising the most was Thomson with $92,828. That’s more than three times