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A special meeting of Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC) has been set for Aug. 12. The purpose of the meeting is to consider an application to designate about 125 acres in the eastern central part of the city as a historic conservation district. The proposal is to establish most

At a Wednesday evening meeting, held at Ellettsville’s town hall, four members of Monroe County’s 11-strong vote center study committee hosted a public meeting. They wanted to hear feedback on the concept of converting the county’s voting locations to polling places where any registered voter can cast

Due to start in about a week, on Aug. 5, is the installation of a Bloomington gateway project on the north end of Miller-Showers Park. The planned location is on the narrow part of the median, where College Avenue and Walnut Street squeeze together as the roadways approach the SR

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Monroe County council, sheriff’s deputies advocated for changes to their retirement package, which will require about $200,000 more funding each year, based on an actuarial report done by McCready and Keene, Inc. Deputies would like to see two basic eligibility options for

For a while now, one of the positions on Monroe County’s seven-member board of health has been vacant. It’s the position that is newly defined in state code by Indiana’s state legislature in 2023, as appointed by the “county executive” from a list of three recommendations by

On Monday afternoon, the expansion project for the Monroe Convention center took a procedural step forward. At its Monday meeting, the county’s FABTAC (food and beverage tax advisory commission) approved a requested additional expenditure from food and beverage tax revenues, to support the revised 2024 budget for the Monroe