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The City of Bloomington is suspending the Bloomington Community Farmers’ market for the next two Saturdays. Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced Monday the market will be closed August 3rd and 10th in response to escalating tensions over the presence of Schooner Creek Farms, a vendor with alleged ties to white nationalist groups. The Tuesday market will continue running at Sixth …

The City of Bloomington may be shoring up diversity programming at its Saturday Farmers Market to create a sense of inclusion and safety. That comes at the recommendation of a Farmer Market Advisory Council subcommittee, which met last night. Farmer Market Coordinator Marcia Veldman says the market is possibly the most diverse space in Bloomington, but there is always more …

Bloomington community members continued to call for the ouster of the proprietors of Schooner Creek Farm, from the Bloomington Farmers’ Market, during last night’s Board of Park Commissioners meeting. Schooner Creek Farm proprietors Sarah Dye and Douglas Mackey are alleged to be members of the white supremacist group, Identity Evropa. Neither has incited violence at the market, or distributed threatening …

Tune in for your weekly LGBTQ+ news update with your BloomingOUT family. Yesterday marks the 3rd anniversary since the Pulse shootings in Orlando. Join us as we remember and talk about the aftermath in the the LGBTQ+ community. Another topic of interest this time on this episode comes from WFHB’s own report on a White Nationalist group at the farmer’s …

EDITOR’S NOTE: According to their website, Schooner Creek Farms previously donated to WFHB. Schooner Creek Farms maintains their booth at the Bloomington Farmers’ Market. The organic produce vendor was at the Bloomington Farmers’ Market, this past Saturday. Area residents are circulating petitions to remove the southern Brown County vendor from both the Nashville and Bloomington Farmer’s Markets. The proprietors of …

HEADLINES Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will speak at Indiana University in Bloomington, tomorrow; Schooner Creek Farms maintains their booth at the Bloomington Farmer’s Market; The city of Bloomington’s Common Council will meet again this week to discuss the passage of harassment and abuse policies for employees and contractors. FEATURE Phil Proctor and Davis Ossman about their radio theater quartet, …

On Friday morning, a Noblesville middle school joined 23 other schools which have experienced gun violence so far this year; The Federal Emergency Management Agency is opening five disaster relief centers across Indiana; Twenty-three Bloomington nonprofits stand to receive more than $300,000 in grants, collectively; The Bloomington Farmer’s Market is offering to double the dollars of people using food stamps; …

Monroe County officials took feedback last night on a proposed Phase 2 of the Fullerton Pike project; In its meeting last night, the Bloomington Redevelopment Commission gave a green light to the fourth phase of a five phase plan to construct the Cascades Park Trail; The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market has received a donation from an anonymous donor of 30,000 …

On Tuesday September 16th  Science Café presented James Farmer, an assistant professor in the SPEA school. Farmer is an expert in local food and the dynamics of farmer’s markets and restaurants and his presentation centered on the value of de-centralized food distribution. This event was hosted by Finch’s Brasserie and recorded by WFHB correspondents for Standing Room Only, on WFHB.