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A week before Christmas, both major political parties made local news with their caucuses. Republicans elected 18-year-old Taylor Bryant as Monroe County Republican Party chair. Bryant became the youngest county chair ever for Monroe County and probably the state of Indiana. At their caucus, Democrats chose Jennifer Crossley as a

The “Happy New Year” message in this column is a bit premature, because New Year’s Day 2022 is still nearly a week away. But it’s provided early, so that B Square readers have time to study these letters and try to discern their origin, without any time pressure.

This year, Christmas fell on Saturday, the regular day for the weekly People’s Market, which operates from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. out of Full House Fitness on Elm Street. The market was open for business as usual this Saturday. Around 10:30 a.m. about a

If you had to hang nine red globes on a Christmas tree, one for each Bloomington city councilmember, how would you approach that task? What if you had to make the distance between councilmembers on the tree show how close they are politically—at least when it comes to their

By mid-afternoon on Thursday, workers had completed the installation of the colorful quilt-patterned panels on three sides of the new 4th Street parking garage in downtown Bloomington. As they were packing up their gear, the crew from Ignition Arts, which did the fabrication and installation of the piece, told The

Indiana’s COVID-19 dashboard recorded 100 positive cases for Monroe County on Tuesday, Dec. 21. That’s the highest daily total the county has seen since early January. It’s the 19th time Monroe County has hit triple digits for a day, since the county’s first positive case was