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With recent guidelines issued for safety against the COVID-19 pandemic by the Monroe County Health Department and the return of the IU student population, many popular local restaurants around Bloomington have expanded and adjusted their outdoor seating options.
Sections of Kirkwood Avenue were teeming with IU students, Bloomington residents and out-of-town visitors at lunchtime last Sunday. After unanimous approval from Bloomington City Council, two parts of the street have been closed to automobile traffic on recent weekends to allow restaurants and shops more space for social distancing and outdoor diningin the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. While no shops have set up in the closed sections yet, many restaurants on Kirkwood between the Monroe County Courthouse and the Sample Gates have moved into the roadway.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced religious organizations to adopt their services to adhere to safety guidelines.
An IU Ph.D. candidate and researcher was arrested in July after an FBI investigation alleged he was one of several Chinese researchers in the U.S. who knowingly lied on his visa application by saying he had never served in the Chinese military.
After six months spent totally isolated, walled in with parents or even simply ignoring the pandemic as it transformed the world in irreparable ways, IU’s students returned to the campus they left in March. It was the same place it had always been when they arrived more than a week ago, but so much about their lives in Bloomington was unfamiliar.
The IDS published a story Sunday regarding the Bloomington Police Department not wearing face masks when dealing with the public as is mandated for employees and residents of the city of Bloomington by local and state officials.
The band Matixando performs a musical set. Switchyard Park will put on its first ever Summer Sendoff Concert 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 4 to a crowd of 150 people, due to safety restrictions.
Switchyard Park will put on its first ever Summer Sendoff Concert 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 4, according to the Bloomington Parks and Recreation website. The concert will feature Matixando and Kid Kazooey and The BallRoom Roustabouts. The event is free, but a ticket is required for admission. The event is currently sold out.
There is a free concert from 4:30 to 6 p.m. every Thursday at People's Park, located on the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and North Dunn Street.
Over the past four days of departmental budget hearings, officials overcame laggy video, accidentally muted audio and a zoombombing where a participant drew a penis on top of a presentation. This is the first formal presentation of the city’s proposed budget for 2021.
Skateboard Park Jam contest host James Ott, left, poses with his friend James Moffatt on July 25 in Columbus, Indiana. People gathered from different towns in southern Indiana to skate at the Jolie Crider Memorial Skatepark.
When Jordan Davis saw the tweets, she gasped.
Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market coordinator Marcia Veldman will spend the last day in her position at the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department on Thursday according to her email to vendors at the market. Her resignation ends her 24 years of overseeing the market’s operations.
People walk through the aisles of vendors at the Bloomington Community Farmers' Market near City Hall in 2018. A group of staff in the parks department will take over the duties of the farmers market coordinator in the interim period after longtime coordinator Marcia Veldman’s resignation.
About a dozen self-described “old punks” and members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network met at noon Saturday in Peoples Park to discuss their past activism, their present lives and concerns about the future.
Members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network pose for a photo in front of the mural in Peoples Park. The group came from a variety of backgrounds and locations, including Seattle and Roanoke, Virginia.
Monroe County prosecuting attorney Erika Oliphant issued arrest warrants for Sean M. Purdy and Jerry Edward Cox II on Friday after the Department of Natural Resources report was released Thursday about the Fourth of July encounter between Vauhxx Booker and several people at Lake Monroe.
A crowd of protesters listens as people take turns sharing the changes they would like to see in the community July 10 in Peoples Park.
A fifth Bloomington city employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. According to a press release by the City of Bloomington, the employee does not usually interact with the public in his day-to-day work.
Lights shine July 13 on the mural in Peoples Park. "Black lives matter" was painted over the mural following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May.
