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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

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

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

On Wednesday afternoon, at a joint session of Monroe County’s board of commissioners and the county plan commission, both bodies voted separately to agree to a settlement of a lawsuit against William and Nicole Huff and the Huffs’ counterclaim against the county. The county’s lawsuit was filed in