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Judith Benckart, the Republican Party’s appointee to the Monroe County election board, has announced her resignation from the three-member group, effective Dec. 31, 2024. Benckart read aloud her ...
The ordinance with those numbers was approved on a 8–1 vote 7–1 vote. Dissenting was Isak Asare. Out of the room when the vote was taken was Matt Flaherty. Those figures were a big decrease from the ...
On Tuesday afternoon a three-judge panel from Indiana’s court of appeals heard oral arguments in a case involving the city of Bloomington’s constitutional challenge to a 2019 state law, which causes ...
When its zoning was approved by the Bloomington city council almost five years ago, The Relato Bloomington apartment building on the east side of town was supposed to include several “affordable” ...
On Wednesday night, Monroe County commissioners voted 3–0 to adopt the county development ordinance (CDO). The CDO includes all the zoning regulations for the unincorporated part of the county. Two ...
Up for a vote by the Bloomington Transit board on Tuesday will be a policy change that reduces the amount of advertising on the city’s public buses. The Tuesday (Dec. 17) meeting is the final monthly ...
The Monroe County board of health has accepted the resignation of health officer Clark Brittain, which he submitted just before Thanksgiving. Brittain’s resignation is effective on Dec. 31, 2024. The ...
At its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Monroe County’s capital improvement board got a status update on the project that the seven member group was formed to oversee—the expansion of the county ...
Early Tuesday afternoon, news came that longtime Monroe County councilor Cheryl Munson has died. This photo of Cheryl Munson is from her most recent campaign website.. Kate Wiltz, who was Munson’s ...
Bloomington city councilmember Sydney Zulich said at Wednesday’s regular meeting, that she wanted to address the “elephant in the room”—which was the public backlash to a proposal to more than double ...