Photos: Kiwanis Indiana Balloon Fest (Sept. 12, 2020)
The Kiwanis Indiana Balloon Fest took place all day Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. The Square Beacon dropped by around dusk for the drive-through “Balloon Glow.”
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Monroe County election board settles on 28 polling sites for Nov. 3 election
At its meeting last Tuesday, Monroe County’s election board settled on polling sites for the Nov. 3 general election. The county’s 82 precincts will be assigned to 28 different locations.
Several of the locations combine precincts. Voters can find their voting location using online tools at IndianaVoters.com
Monroe County adds 235 confirmed COVID-19 cases
The Indiana State Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard for Friday (Sept. 11) shows 235 new confirmed positive cases for Monroe County. That’s three times the previous daily high of 83 on Sept. 4.
According to notes on the dashboard, the confirmed positive numbers reflect when the ISDH
Monroe County commissioners get preliminary OK for $10K salary increase
At their budget work session on Thursday, the third in as many days, Monroe County councilors voted 5–2 to set the salaries for the three county commissioners at $46,000, which is about $10,000 more than they were paid last year.
It’s about $14,000 less than
New seal for Bloomington would mean city is no longer nucleus of Hoosier atom
A new official seal for the city of Bloomington could be adopted sometime soon. The new seal would be based on the ubiquitous city logo, which was adopted by a resolution of the city council in 1986.
According to the text of the 1986 resolution, the logo was designed by
New Bloomington commission floated, would oversee funds from higher local income tax rate
On Wednesday night at a special meeting, Bloomington’s city council started its deliberations on a proposal to increase the countywide local income tax by a quarter point. The debate will continue on Sept. 16.
That amount would take the rate from 1.345 percent to 1.595 percent. The
Monroe County to Bloomington: “We respectfully write to implore you to postpone any vote on the tax increase.”
Responding to a proposal to increase Monroe County’s local income tax by a quarter point, from 1.345 percent to 1.595 percent, the county council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a letter to the Bloomington city council that questions the timing of the move.
The county council’