Host Clarence Boone spends the hour speaking with Bill and Glenda Breeden, along with Danielle Bruce about Sentences: From the Pen to the Page, a theater production about the effects of incarceration, life, and death sentences. This vignette style play has a cast of 8 performers who will be accompanied by live music. Sentences is directed by Danielle Bruce and …
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Buildings on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus lost power yesterday afternoon; Indiana Chamber of Commerce stated it will not support Republican Senate Candidate Mike Braun in his bid to unseat Democratic Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly this Fall; The Monroe County Community School Corporation’s Board of Trustees declined to put metal detectors in schools. FEATURE Tonight is the 4th annual overdose vigil in downtown …
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The Indiana Recovery Alliance’s efforts seem to be paying off. Ahead of the 4th Annual Overdose Remembrance and Candlelight Vigil, the IRA has seen decreases in the number of overdoses deaths in Monroe County. Elsewhere in the state, overdose deaths continue to rise. IRA Founder and Director Chris Abert sees a causation in the correlation – Monroe County and Clark …
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The Indiana Recovery Alliance and the Shalom Community Center handed out Hepatitis A vaccinations in Bloomington this afternoon. Indiana Recovery Alliance Founder and Director Chris Abert said the area organizations handed out around a dozen vaccinations for the disease. Abert said people experiencing homelessness and drug addiction are the among the most susceptible demographics to contract the disease, which is …
Read More »The Bloomington Police Department reported last week that 10 drug overdose cases occurred in the city within 24 hours. Numbers released by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development show Indiana leading the Midwest in low joblessness numbers. Plans are in the works for a new performing arts center in Nashville, Indiana. Bloomington’s Department of Economic & Sustainable Development, in collaboration …
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The city of Bloomington is asking for feedback on a broad range of ideas that could affect the future of the downtown area. From 9AM to noon on Saturday, City Hall is hosting an event where community members will discuss various action ideas generated as part of Mayor John Hamilton’s Downtown Safety, Civility and Justice Initiative. There are dozens of …
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