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On Tuesday night, Monroe County councilors opened a discussion about next year’s salary increase for county employees. A starting point for that discussion is 6 percent. No decisions were made on Tuesday. The county’s budget process will unfold over the course of a couple of weeks starting Sept.

Community service grants to 38 organizations totaling $160,830 were approved by Monroe County councilors at their Tuesday evening work session. The community service grants, which have been made annually since 2008, are named after a former county councilor, the late Sophia Travis. In past years, councilor Marty Hawk has

At its regular Monday meeting, Bloomington’s five-member redevelopment commission approved a $49,825 agreement with Indiana University’s Public Policy Institute, to help meet state requirements for reporting about the city’s certified technology park (CTP). Bloomington’s CTP is a 65-acre chunk of downtown land located north and

A heat advisory has been issued by the National Weather Service for a big area of the Midwest that includes central and southern Indiana. As of Sunday afternoon, the NWS heat advisory goes through midnight Thursday (Aug. 24). Monroe County’s emergency management department has responded to the heat advisory

Bloomington Transit’s 2024 budget, as adopted by the board at its meeting last Tuesday, is about $280,000 more than the draft presented a month ago by BT general manager John Connell. At around $26.6 million, it’s still less than this year’s $35-million budget, which included

Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in July 2023. About 60 percent (52) of the 88 places that were inspected in July 2023 had no violations. Recording at least one non-critical violation, but no critical violations were 10