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A new winter shelter for people without housing, run by Beacon Inc., opened less than two weeks ago, but almost every night it’s been at or near capacity, with just shy of fifty people sleeping there. Beacon rushed to open the shelter after an unprecedented number of people without housing were forced to camp in Seminary Park this winter. Disregarding …

Locutras, Lizbeth Martinez y Diana Reyes, entrevistan a su invitada Alison Ortis – Cortes.  Ellas hablaron de los deportes que juegan, las tradiciones de las quiniceañeras y su cultura, y sus experencias en su escuela. Host, Lizbeth Martinez and Diana Reyes, interview their guest Alison Ortis-Cortez.  They talked about sports, quinceañera’s tradition and culture, and their experiences with school.

Joseph Fowler is a stay-at-home dad to his two children who attend the Project School here in Bloomington. But not too long ago he had a very different role as a division 1 college football coach leading his team to an Orange Bowl championship in 2008. When Joseph and his wife moved to Bloomington six years ago, he made the …

The Monroe County Community School Corporation is inviting community members to weigh in on whether or not the school corporation should implement a security program. Tomorrow’s public forum comes after the state of Indiana released funds for school districts to purchase metal detectors. MCCSC Spokesman Andrew Clampitt said the metal detectors are being released in waves. Clampitt said tomorrow’s community …

Happy New Year! We continue our ‘Best of 2017’ with stories from around your community— In today’s Daily Local News, the city of Bloomington and Monroe County join a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, the city advances measures to curb downtown student apartments, a public education advocacy group challenges Ellettsville’s Seven Oaks Classical School in a federal lawsuit, and Indiana takes …

On today’s Daily Local News Episode, we’ll take a retrospective on some of our best reporting from 2017: Cook Pharmica was sold to New Jersey-based Catalent Incorporated in September; a series of inappropriate social media messages from Kilroy’s bars draws community condemnation; Dan Wakefield, a longtime friend of Kurt Vonnegut, co-edited five previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut short stories which were discovered at …

Members of the public will get to hear and comment on proposals to address the “F” grades given by the state to Fairview and Highland Park schools. The opportunity will come this evening, when the Board of Trustees of the Monroe County Community School Corporation opens its regular meeting. The principals of the two elementary schools will present their proposals …

The principal at Fairview Elementary says most of its students are not reading at grade level. That literacy issue was the centerpiece of a presentation about Fairview issues that Principal Tammy Miller gave to the Monroe County Community School Corporation’s Board of Trustees on February 11. The presentation came about a month after parents protested sudden changes at the school, …

The proposed restructuring of classes at Fairview School that brought angry parents to school board offices has been stopped, according to Beverly Smith, Director of School and Community Services at the Monroe County Community School Corporation. “Our Director of Elementary Education Tammy Miller is serving as the interim principal at Fairview School through the end of this year,” Smith said, …

 On Saturday November 23rd The Brown County Democratic Party invited the public to join a brown bag lunch session with Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz and the Director and Founder of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan Rob Stone, M.D. The event was free to the public, and included a question and answer period. Part 1 focuses on Education …