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For the first time ever, the Middle Way House is partnering with the City of Bloomington for the annual Wrapped in Love event.
Bloomington will be getting a gateway to the city after the project was postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19.
The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation will transform downtown Bloomington later this month, hosting the 30th annual Lotus Festival from Sept. 28 - Oct. 1. The festival celebrates and explores the diversity of the world’s cultures through music, art and fun for all ages.
The first week of school, my Italian professor asked the class who already had Instagram downloaded on their phone. Obviously, there was a murmur of yeses, along with the singular no from me. I wasn’t surprised. Instagram is basically the new Facebook. Everyone has an account.
Morgenstern Books will host free interactive events for children interested in camping Friday and Saturday. The activities will be from the book “Kids’s Ultimate Camping Experience: Activity Book, Camping Log, & More!” which was published by Cosmic Creations Publishing.
The Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater department will present the first opera of the fall season, “The Merry Widow,” with two casts at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 and 23 at the Musical Arts Center.
Friday marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. The month, which lasts from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, celebrates the history, cultures and contributions of American citizens who are of Spanish, Mexican, Carribean and South and Central American descent, according to the national website.
IU senior Savannah Price started crocheting after Harry Styles wore a knit cardigan in the summer of 2020. It was her first escapade out of quarantine confinement: a trip to Walmart to purchase a crochet hook and yarn.
Two people run on the B-Line Trail on Sept. 5, 2023, by Switchyard Park. Loved ones make each other feel safe, then must watch each other go.
Tents and other shelters are erected on Dec. 8, 2022, at Seminary Square Park at 100 W. 2nd Street. Forcing unhoused people out of public spaces doesn’t make the issue disappear.
The Bloomington Board of Park Commissioners unanimously passed a ban on “camping structures and makeshift enclosures” in Bloomington parks during the daytime that went into effect last Wednesday, Aug. 23. The policy points to issues with these structures making parks unwelcoming environments to other members of the Bloomington community and creating health and safety concerns.
Members of the Bloomington community voiced their concerns regarding a petition to build and rezone a 139-acre mixed residential development off Weimer Road at the Bloomington Plan Commission’s meeting Monday night. The commission voted to forward the petition to a second hearing in September.
Developer Alluin Development, LLC has submitted a proposal to create a 150-room boutique hotel in Bloomington's Trades District.
For the last three weeks, I have been solo traveling around Europe. I have done small-scale solo travel through the U.S. in previous summers, like camping or road trips. However, this involved much higher stakes.
More than 76,000 people in Indiana are still without power following severe storms Thursday. The storms — which follow a series of deadly tornadoes in Indiana last week — caused approximately 202,000 outages across the state, according to a Duke Energy press release.
First responders set up restoration efforts in the IU Memorial Stadium parking lot June 30, 2023. More than 76,000 people in Indiana are still without power following severe storms Thursday.
On June 22, five people died in a submersible after their craft imploded.
The city of Bloomington will host a celebration for Juneteenth — which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. — 2 p.m. Saturday at Switchyard Park. Juneteenth — also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day or Emancipation Day — marks the official day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of emancipation.
When I go on tours, I don’t usually listen to the overhead voice telling me about whatever sight I’m seeing. I tend to zone out, getting rid of all the outside voices and sounds so I can take it in myself. It's not that I’m not interested in learning, I just don’t have the attention span to listen to someone talking for an hour. Especially when I have something unique and different in front of me to observe and commit to memory.
A calm, bittersweet sort of feeling came over me as the Three Bears Park came into view. Eleven years later, I was finally back. We had endured over 13 hours of driving and Philadelphia’s brutal traffic to get here.
