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Sign posted a Monroe County’s Election Central on July 1, 2024.

Sign posted on the door of Monroe County sheriff’s office on July 2, 2024.

Sign posted at the Monroe County courthouse on July 1, 2024)

After closing down on Monday and Tuesday due to a computer network server outage, Monroe County government offices look like they could be closed on Wednesday, too.

Offices would not be open on Thursday anyway due to the July 4 holiday.

[Updated on Tuesday 3:53 p.m. July 2, 2024. Via the county’s emergency alert system the following message was sent (emphasis added): “Monroe County Government Offices, including the Court, will be closed Wednesday, through Friday and reopen Monday, July 8. Jail employees and Road deputies are not affected by this closure.”

The headline for this report has been revised to reflect this new information.]

Monroe County’s chief technology officer, Greg Crohn, told The B Square that county staff, with the help of a third-party vendor, are working “diligently around the clock on it, trying to get this rectified as soon as possible.”

[Updated at 3:14 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Monroe County issued a news release on the situation. It concludes, “When we have something available for sharing we will provide that as soon as possible.”]

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Section of road proposed for closure. It stopped short of the underpass, and did not extend to College Avenue.

Section of trail proposed to city council in Oct. 31, 2018 bond proposal. It goes south all the way to College Avenue.

Locator map for proposed road closure.

Late Tuesday afternoon, a Bloomington city staff recommendation to permanently reopen the road through Lower Cascades Park was delivered to the four-member board of park commissioners.

That was followed by an update to the three-member board of public works from public works director Adam Wason, about the parks staff recommendation to re-open the road.

That meant board of public works members did not have to vote on the question of a road closure.

Still, Wason told them the road could not be opened “anytime soon.” For one thing, the road sustained substantial damage as a result of weekend’s heavy rains, which caused flooding in several places.

For another thing, it will take some time to design and construct the kind of traffic calming measures that are being recommended—to try to make the road safer for people bicycling and walking along the park road. Continue reading “Bloomington’s Lower Cascades Road to reopen after pilot closure, but “not anytime soon”” →