Kruzan names 3-year staff-person as new deputy mayor for 2008
Come Jan. 1, 2008, Bloomington communications director Maria Heslin will become the city’s first female deputy mayor, Mayor Mark Kruzan announced Monday.
Come Jan. 1, 2008, Bloomington communications director Maria Heslin will become the city’s first female deputy mayor, Mayor Mark Kruzan announced Monday.
INDIANAPOLIS – Democratic U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, who announced over the weekend that she has terminal lung cancer, will not run for a seventh term, her chief of staff said Monday.
Despite the state’s increased funding, rising gas prices will cause a tight budget for local energy cost assistance programs in Monroe and nearby counties.
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BOLOGNA, Italy– Venice is one of those cities that you must see before you die. I spent last weekend in the “city of bridges,” and if I die tomorrow, I will have a smile on my face. It was truly one of the best trips of my life.
Arthur Cullipher knows a thing or two about creating illusions. As a special effects artist who also specializes in horror stage make-up, he has worked for over a dozen independent films doing make-up and special effects.
Come Jan. 1, 2008, Bloomington communications director Maria Heslin will become the city’s first female deputy mayor, Mayor Mark Kruzan announced Monday.
IU football coach Bill Lynch has signed a contract renewal and will be signed through 2012, IU media relations announced today.
Bloomington is big enough for two cookie delivery businesses, said Geoff Stickel, general manager of Insomnia Cookies. “There are plenty of pizza places in town,” Stickel said. “There should be plenty of room for cookie places.” Insomnia Cookies opened about three weeks ago at 302 N. Walnut St., just up the road from Baked! of Bloomington’s new location at 113 W. Seventh St. Both business sell cookies that can be delivered directly to the customer’s door.
The presidential debates next year will not be held at IU, though the University was considered to host an event, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced last week.
George Gaber, 91, renowned percussionist and professor emeritus, died Wednesday at Bloomington’s Meadowood Health Pavilion.
IU suffered a tough first loss to Xavier in the finals of the Chicago Invitational Challenge Saturday.
The IU women’s basketball team spent Thanksgiving break in the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam Tournament. The Hoosiers lost two out of three games on the trip, bringing their record to 4-2.
With 4:31 remaining in the first half of Saturday’s Chicago Invitational Challenge championship, junior guard/forward Jamarcus Ellis hit a jumper to pull the IU men’s basketball team within one point of Xavier.
Unlucky loss number seven kept the IU women’s soccer team from advancing to the round of eight in the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers’ season ended with a 13-7-3 record on a rainy Sunday in Bloomington as they fell to the Duke Blue Devils 2-0.
Mike Green and Butler rode the 3-point shot all the way to a championship in the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout.
Rebuilding. Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis started the season by vowing never to use the word. Now he will spend the next nine months trying to accomplish it after the Fighting Irish (3-9) went from earning consecutive Bowl Championship Series berths to becoming the target of late-night talk show jokes.
LeBron James had his fourth triple-double of the season, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Indiana Pacers 111-106 Sunday for their third straight win. James, the league’s leading scorer, finished with 30 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. It was the 14th triple-double of his career.
The IU wrestling team continued its hot start to the season by going undefeated at the Hoosier Duals this weekend. Extending their record to 6-0, the Hoosiers dominated the competition at Assembly Hall on Saturday by posting dual match team victories of at least 23 points in each match.
While most students braved traffic jams and delays at airports in order to get home for Thanksgiving, many international students at IU did not have the luxury of flying to their home countries for the break.