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Bloomington, Indiana · BloomingtonOn Monday afternoon, the expansion project for the Monroe Convention center took a procedural step forward. At its Monday meeting, the county’s FABTAC (food and beverage tax advisory commission) approved a requested additional expenditure from food and beverage tax revenues, to support the revised 2024 budget for the Monroe County capital improvement board (CIB). The city of Bloomington’s share of the food and beverage tax, which comes to about …See the Story
Food and Beverage tax notebook: Advisory group OKs $350K more for 2024 capital board’s budget
Bloomington, Indiana · BloomingtonTwo more ambulances are now available to respond to emergency medical calls in Monroe County. That will be followed sometime in the coming months with another two, for a total of four, additional ambulances that will be deployed by Monroe County Fire Protection District. The purchase of the four ambulances was made possible by action of Monroe County government—county commissioners and county councilors. Some of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP…See the Story
Ambulance service in Monroe County gets a boost from fire district purchase
Bloomington, Indiana · BloomingtonLast week, on Monday, Bloomington Transit launched a new on-demand service called BLink. Using the BLink app, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, passengers can request a ride between any of three zones inside the city of Bloomington—North, East, and Downtown. The pickup window is a half hour long. Drivers will wait up to five minutes on a passenger. Passengers can also book these zone-to-zone rides up to 24 hours in advance. The fare f…See the Story
Column: Testing out Bloomington’s new BLink microtransit service
CVS · BloomingtonThe latest timeline for an expansion to the Monroe Convention Center puts the completion at the end of 2026. If all goes as planned, attendees of events in the expanded facility might have a new dining option in downtown Bloomington. The new eatery is part of a project to be built on what is now a surface parking lot for a dozen and a half cars, next to the CVS at Washington Street and Kirkwood Avenue. The restaurant is planned to take up all of…See the Story
Bloomington BZA to hear height variance for 5-story project on Kirkwood, by CVS near Uptown Café
Bloomington, Indiana · BloomingtonThe image links to a dynamic map. (The color coding scheme goes like this: Green=Zero violations; Yellow=At least 1 non-critical violation but no critical violations; Red=At least 1 critical violation.) Monroe County’s health department has released the reports for inspections of food service operations that were conducted in June 2024. Of the 81 places that were inspected in June, 36 had no violations. That’s the same number that recorded at l…See the Story
June 2024 food inspection reports for Monroe County released by health department
Bloomington, Indiana · BloomingtonAt its Tuesday meeting, Bloomington Transit’s five-member board of directors received a presentation on the proposed 2025 budget, a preliminary report about a possible new east-west high-frequency bus line for Bloomington, and an update on the launch of its new BLink microtransit service. At $32.6 million, Bloomington Transit’s draft 2025 budget is about $6 million bigger than the adopted 2024 spending plan. The 2025 budget will include about $…See the Story
Bloomington Transit board briefed on $32.6M budget for 2025, new east-west line, microtransit
Bloomington, Indiana · BloomingtonMonroe County commissioners could be making a decision about the location of a new jail as soon as six weeks from now, by the end of August. That’s based on their remarks made at their regular Wednesday morning meeting, and responses from board of commissioners president Julie Thomas after the meeting to B Square questions. The commissioners did not have an item on their agenda about the location of the planned new jail. But they took the chance…See the Story
Decision on Monroe County jail location could come towards late August: ‘We can’t keep putting this off.’
Baseball · BloomingtonBLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — The Indiana University Hoosiers baseball program continued to make a name for itself on a national level with four of its players selected in the first five rounds of the MLB draft. For those keeping score, that’s the most in the program’s history and more than any other Big Ten school. Carmel native Nick Mitchell was chosen in Round 4 of the draft, 136th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays. The outfielder appeared in 54 …See the Story
4 Indiana baseball players taken in top 5 rounds of MLB draft
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