Group encourages locals to trade time and talents
Members of hOUR Bloomington, the city’s first time bank, work with an alternate currency — they exchange time and talents rather than dollars and dimes.
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Members of hOUR Bloomington, the city’s first time bank, work with an alternate currency — they exchange time and talents rather than dollars and dimes.
The unlikely combination of garlic and art brought festival-goers to Third Street Park Saturday and Sunday, where the Bloomington GarlicFest and Community Art Fair took place for its fourth year.
Tucked into the Monroe County Public Library, a space called the Ground Floor is home to modern furniture, technology, books, bright color and kids — and a new speech-writing program called Podium Club.
Giving Back to Africa’s biggest fundraising event of the year took place Sunday at the Clubhouse at the Fields. “Congo: Continue the Story in the Garden” attracted more than 200 guests and raised more than $25,000 for the nonprofit organization’s work with schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tucked behind the usual bustling of Kirkwood Avenue, a stretch of Fourth Street transformed into a celebration Saturday. Bloomington PRIDE’s second annual Summerfest filled the day with music, food, dancing, drinking, face painting, lectures and lots of rainbows.
A shrinking number of teachers across the state has left empty spots in some schools, especially in math, science and language positions.
Within a half hour of the Upland Brewery Co.’s doors opening, adults ranging in age from college students to silver-haired retirees filled the room. Voices bounced off the terra-cotta and brown-painted walls as their owners dined on hummus and beer.
Record rainfall this summer stunted corn crops by 6 percent and may cause problems for Indiana farmers.
Diploma requirements may change for Indiana high-school students within the next few years.
Before the sun has fully risen, but just after the sky has begun to lighten, vans and trucks rumble down Morton Street from all ?directions.
On an uneven parking lot mostly hidden from Tenth Street, a greenhouse is ?growing.
A public hearing took place Thursday night at the Monroe County Courthouse for the proposed Fullerton Pike Corridor project . The plan involves the construction of a two-lane roadway that will stretch approximately 0.7 miles, from the intersection of State Road 37 and Rockport Road to ?Sare Road.
The air is full of whistles and energy. Dark-haired boys cluster on the field under harsh stadium lights as a light drizzle coats them with cold raindrops. Their breath, momentarily visible as their shouts echo across the field, disappears into the air.
Every Wednesday during Homecoming week, students gather in Dunn Meadow clad in body paint, running shoes and not much else.