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Click to view slideshow.   Still in place on Monday afternoon were the yellow bollards that public works crews installed before the weekend, to close off parts of Kirkwood Avenue in downtown Bloomington. That’s not due to any slacking by Bloomington public works. They have been setting up and removing

At its meeting last Tuesday, the Monroe County council handled two $3-million items. One was a transfer of $3 million to its rainy day fund. The other was a final approval on issuance of $3.1 million in general obligation bonds. The amount includes $3 million worth of capital projects

Photos Click to view slideshow. The Little 500 bicycle race is a spring tradition at Indiana University. Complementing the spring race is a fall racing series, which includes individual time trials. Temperatures were in the low 60s with winds of 10-15 mph out of the southwest, with gusts up to

Work on downtown alleys in Bloomington continued this past week after a crew from E & B Paving moved the operation east from the block between College Avenue and Walnut Street, just north of the county courthouse. The project is focusing on alleys between 6th and 7th Street, between College

The tally of early voters in Monroe County on Friday was 1,199. That was the fourth day in a row that set a new daily high. Early voting started last week on Tuesday (Oct. 6). Over the first nine days, 8,954 ballots have been cast. That’s an

On Wednesday night, Bloomington’s city budget got just seven votes of support from the nine-member city council. In the approved budget, general fund expenditures for 2021 decreased to around $95 million, from around $99 million in 2020. Nothing significant changed from the time the budget was first proposed in