Good evening.  This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, March 18th, 2020. In today’s episode, we have a special edition of the WFHB Local News where we dive deep into the local impacts of coronavirus. Over the course of the next half hour, we hear from our remote correspondents reporting from home as well as talk to a psychologist, …

For thousands of years, all kinds of people, sold all kinds of medicine, full of all kinds of stuff, and claimed their products had all kinds of benefits. But, back in the day they had to travel form town to town with a horse and wagon and could only afford to pitch to a few suckers at any one time. …

Today we begin to take some kind of measure of the impacts of the so-called novel coronavirus or COVID-19 in our communities. Throughout, we’ll be accompanied by “Love” and “Compassion,” two tracks from John Coltrane’s last recordings with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison. Recorded on September 2, 1965 and released in 1977 on the album First Meditations, this has …

3/16/2020 @ 8:45 p.m. Governor Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Box on the coronavirus today. http:/https://www.facebook.com/GovHolcomb/videos/280770232909362/ 3/16/2020 @ 4:30 p.m. Good afternoon. You’re tuned to the WFHB Local News Brief, where we bring you live updates on the coronavirus. As reported earlier, Indiana has its first confirmed death due to the coronavirus. State officials say the Indianapolis woman was …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Coronavirus is the first topic, Rich has toilet paper for sale for $2 per roll, Lake Monroe’s spillway parking lot closed as of March 23rd because of vandalism, morels should be good this year, caller talks about the old road on a ridge trail, a little about IU basketball, naming …

 President Donald Trump declared a national emergency today at approximately 3:30 pm. The FDA approved a new test for the virus and expect up to half a million available by Monday. Work is being done to create a screening website and drive through virus testing.  Large-in-person Bloomington public meetings will be reduced starting Monday due to the coronavirus. With necessary …

Listen to the full-length interview with WFHB’s Cynthia Roberts-Hall and two Third Secretaries to the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. Yanet Pumariega and Dariel Quintana visited Bloomington, and they spoke with WFHB about relations between Cuba and the United States. Here’s more information about our guests.                             …

Welcome to the WFHB Local News for Friday, March 13th, 2020. Here are your headlines: Bloomington Historic Preservation Commission discussed a redesign to the Kiln adaptive reuse petition during their March 12th meeting. The petitioner discussed building design changes. The petitioner also included a historic light steel rail line detached C-channel awning and railing. He said storm water will drain …

The entire country of Italy is now a “red zone,” not quite quarantined, but facing serious restrictions to movement and public gathering due to the coronavirus. Prisoners were told that they would lose all family visitation, even though the Justice Ministry was not taking any other steps to offer them medical care or prevent transmission in crowded conditions.  In response, …

Members of the Bloomington Plan Commission reviewed and approved plans for the construction of a new Fourth Street parking garage this past Monday evening after seeing the presentation for the new design at their meeting. Construction is due to begin around August 3 and will last 12 months. Opening day is expected to be on August 13, 2021 10 days …