This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB News spoke with Christina Avery and Haley Miller, two reporters from the Limestone Post magazine. Avery and Miller authored a two-part series on food insecurity for Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, February 15th, 2024. This month, the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County welcomes Karen Jepson-Innes, WonderLab executive director, and Kelly Debikey, their education director, to share with our audience the many exciting opportunities that WonderLab Museum of Science Health and Technology offers to Bloomington residents. More in the latest …
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An arctic blast struck Bloomington this past week, putting temperatures as low as -5 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chills below -10 degrees Fahrenheit. During this same time last year, the average temperature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill was around 30 degrees. Coming on the heels of 2023 being the warmest year on record, this cold spell is …
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Today was Organization Day in the Indiana legislature, marking the first formal meeting of the State Senate and State House of Representatives since election day; The Monroe County Election Board reviewed 260 provisional ballots in a four-hour meeting, last Friday. Most ballots were rejected; The Richland Bean-Blossom School Board approved $5.2 million to build a connector between Edgewood Primary and …
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City of Bloomington Fire Department Battalion Chief Neville Vaughan tells the story of the December, 1925 accident – when City Fire Truck #1 was struck by a train, while responding to an alarm. Fire Chief Clarence Strain Died as a result of the accident. Support for The Bicentennial Journal and WFHB comes from Monroe County and Visit Bloomington. More information …
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced yesterday it’s endorsing Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun; Overcrowding in a Terre Haute jail has resulted in a federal judge ruling that prisoner conditions are unconstitutional; Indiana will receive nearly $1.5 million from the ride-hailing company Uber; The City of Bloomington’s Griffy Lake water treatment plant shut down in 1996, but the plant is …
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A Bloomington Fire Department Captain is facing three felony charges, after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a minor; Anne Bono will resume her position as interim director of the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, after its CEO resigns two months in; Indiana received a letter ‘D’ grade in economic opportunities for women, for the second year in a row. FEATURE Spyridon Stratigos, better …
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The city of Bloomington will hold three public meetings this week, about the planned purchase of an armored vehicle for the city’s police department. The announcement of the planned purchase on February 6th drew criticism from Bloomington residents and Black Lives Matter advocates. Residents raised concerns about a lack of public input and the two-hundred, twenty five thousand dollar price …
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