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Last Monday, I wandered over to the Monroe County courthouse grounds in downtown Bloomington to check the status of cicadas. I saw a cute bunny rabbit, but no cicadas. On Saturday, I noticed a few cicada shells clinging to the face of the the Alexander Monument when I was covering

A Saturday rally on the courthouse square in downtown Bloomington, to support city government funding of the arts, had a celebratory feel. The feeling was based on the boost that arts groups heard in remarks from Bloomington’s mayor, John Hamilton, which were delivered on Thursday. Thursday’s announcement from

All Indiana University students, faculty, and staff have to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus to start the fall semester. Some kind of decision on the topic, which was announced Friday morning, had been expected. Two weeks ago, during Friday’s weekly press conference of local leaders on COVID-19 response,

On July 1, Bloomington Transit (BT) buses will resume collecting the standard $1 fare for fixed-route bus rides. The BT board’s vote to resume fare collection, after operating fare-free for over a year, came at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday. The board also voted to open the downtown

At its regular meeting on Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council restarted the process, which had been suspended in 2017 by action of the state legislature, to annex eight separate areas into the city. The re-start comes after Indiana’s Supreme Court ruled in a 3–2 split decision late last

Rank-and-file members of the public will be able to participate remotely in future county board meetings, even after pandemic protocols are lifted, and when commissioners start holding in-person meetings. That was a key takeaway from Wednesday’s Monroe County commissioners meeting. The current emergency health order from Indiana governor Eric