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A ruling issued by Indiana’s court of appeals this past week says that if a car without a permit is parked in a private permit-only lot, a towing company can tow the illegally parked car without waiting 24 hours, even if it’s the only car parked in the

In a COVID-19 public health order signed by Monroe County’s health officer Thomas Sharp on Friday,  a stay-at-home directive was put in place for Monroe County’s residents that lasts until May 15. Other features of Friday’s Monroe County order include a prohibition on restaurant dine-in service. That

At their regular Wednesday morning meeting, Monroe County commissioners authorized another $95,500 in support of COVID-19 relief for tourism-related businesses outside the city of Bloomington. Nine business received grant awards ranging from $2,500 to $23,000. That adds to the total of $68,352 they approved last week

At the county council’s work session held Tuesday night, Monroe County assessor Judy Sharp sketched out one possible dire impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: Half the assessed value of property in the county could disappear. The assessed value is the figure on which city, county, school and other property

On Tuesday at noon, at the the fourth continuation of a meeting that was initially convened on April 2, Monroe County’s election board approved the use of seven in-person polling sites for the June 2 primary election. At Tuesday’s meeting, one of the sites was still not nailed

Bloomington’s city council will be meeting on Wednesday next week (April 29) for its annual “budget advance.” It’s a part of the planning process for the mayor’s development of the budget for the city’s next fiscal year. The city’s fiscal year coincides with the calendar