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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 …

South Bend Mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg cancelled campaign events to return to the northern Indiana city, last week. Buttigieg – who is finishing his second term as South Bend Mayor – returned to the city, after a black man was shot dead by a white police officer. Buttigieg held a town hall meeting on Sunday about the …

South Bend Mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg continues to suspend campaign events, after last week’s fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer. The 37 year-old, two-term mayor addressed the community at a town hall meeting, last night. The Associated Press reports a further 11 people were shot yesterday, including one man fatally, after a …

The Bloomington Farmer’s Market Advisory Council is scheduled to meet tonight. Those normally quiet meetings are expected to be more lively tonight, as community members ask the advisory council to ban a Brown County vendor from the farmers’ market, due to their alleged ties to a white supremacist group. At least two petitions are asking the City of Bloomington’s Parks …

The Bloomington Common Council meets again this week, to discuss the passage of harassment and abuse policies for contractors, interns and volunteers. This Wednesday night’s city council meeting will be the second time council members will consider passage of anti-harassment policies, specifically targeting non city employees. The meeting and policy change comes as Monroe County grapples with passing their own …

In a marathon session last night, Bloomington City Council members deliberated the finer points of  proposed legislation regulating scooter use in the city; Recent allegations of sexual harassment between a Monroe County commissioner and a county contractor have prompted the  county’s legal department to further refine its personal policy and county code. FEATURE Community members brought video and audio allegedly …

The Town of Ellettsville will open its History Center, next month. Ellettsville Police Chief Jimmie Durnil announced the History Center’s May 4 open house, at last night’s Ellettsville Town Council meeting. The renovation from town hall to history center has been more than three years in the making. Durnil said many of the items on display came from historian and …

The Bloomington Common Council will meet at city hall tonight, to discuss additional regulations on scooter use. Tonight’s meeting comes after the publication of survey findings from area residents. Three different surveys on electric scooter use in the city garnered thousands of responses, most of them negative. According to the report, the majority of respondents – around 75 percent – …

The Bloomington Common Council approved the demolition and replacement of the downtown Fourth Street parking garage in a marathon five-hour meeting last night. Area residents formed a line that extended out the Council Chambers door in order to voice their opinions both for and against the rebuild during a public comment period that lasted for two hours. Council members Dave …

The Environmental Protection Agency evicted around 1,000 people from the West Calumet Housing Complex, because of lead and arsenic contaminated soil. The Superfund site was formerly a US Smelting and Lead Refinery facility, and includes part of the former USS Lead facility. Areas nearby include commercial, municipal, and residential buildings. According to EPA records, the site was originally used as a …