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Candidate 2022 Candidate roundup with less than a week left: 4 contested primaries for county Dems

Candidate 2022 Candidate roundup with less than a week left: 4 contested primaries for county Dems

Four and a half more days remain next week for anyone to file as a candidate in the May 3 primaries for county and state offices. The deadline is noon Friday, Feb. 4. Based on primary filings so far, for the general election in November there are just a few

Photos: Redhead ducks return to Bloomington’s Miller-Showers Park

Photos: Redhead ducks return to Bloomington’s Miller-Showers Park

Around the end of February last year, I was alerted to the presence of redhead ducks at Miller-Showers Park in Bloomington. Redhead ducks not permanent residents of the park. They were just passing part of the winter there. I had never seen redhead ducks in real life, so I wrote

Pandemic notebook: Reporting delay means hiccup in decreasing trend, city sanitation crews get thanks

Pandemic notebook: Reporting delay means hiccup in decreasing trend, city sanitation crews get thanks

The decreasing trend in positive COVID-19 numbers, after a plateau, hit a hiccup statewide and in Monroe County, based on numbers updated on Friday by Indiana’s state department of health. According to the state’s department of health, the number of cases reported for Thursday, Jan. 27, included 4,

Election board: Former NAPA building to be used for early, in-person voting in Monroe County

Election board: Former NAPA building to be used for early, in-person voting in Monroe County

In 2022, Monroe County’s in-person early voting will take place at the former NAPA building on the southwest corner of 3rd and Walnut streets in downtown Bloomington. That’s for the the primary and general elections alike. There’s still a chance that some early in-person ballots could also

Half-mile segment of trail from Karst Farm Park to Ellettsville to get built

Half-mile segment of trail from Karst Farm Park to Ellettsville to get built

A stretch of the Karst Farm Greenway, from the Loesch Road Trailhead north to Woodyard Road, will get constructed by E & B paving company sometime in 2022. The work will probably be finished around August. The non-motorized path will be 10 feet wide. The contract with E & B

Food and beverage revenues up in Monroe County, as state legislators “make sausage” on time limiting tax

Food and beverage revenues up in Monroe County, as state legislators “make sausage” on time limiting tax

Food and beverage tax revenues for Monroe County were better in 2021 than 2019, the most recent year not impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The $3.63 million collected in 2021 is about 5 percent more than the $3.45 million generated by the tax in 2019. Based on just

$279K for private security patrols in public parks OK’d by Bloomington

$279K for private security patrols in public parks OK’d by Bloomington

In 2022, unarmed officers employed by Marshall Security will continue to patrol Switchyard Park overnight, as well as through the day in a half dozen more parks in Bloomington. The $278,821 contract with Marshall, which runs through the end of 2022, was approved by the four-member board of park