Effective immediately, North Clinton Street between University and Empire, will be closed to all traffic due to sewer repair work.… MORE
Category Archives: Local News
Bloomington school accepts donations for fire victims
Adlai Stevenson Elementary School is collecting donations to help seven families who were displaced by a fire at an east Bloomington apartment complex on Saturday.… MORE
Barickman: Election season may take attention away from important tasks
While Illinois lawmakers continue work in Springfield, they’re gearing up for the 2018 election season, which may take some attention away from the important tasks at hand.… MORE
YWCA adds specialized support groups for survivors of sexual assault
A national study shows every 98 seconds someone becomes a victim of sexual violence. Bloomington’s YWCA is trying to help survivors cope with the long term effects.… MORE
Pontiac youth joins Bradley team as honorary member
A Pontiac St. Mary’s student has been signed as a honorary player with the Bradley University women’s basketball team.… MORE
Families of domestic abuse learn to cope with the effects through music
Domestic violence situations can make the idea of finding peace and calm, not to mention a caring community, seem difficult to imagine.… MORE
How to be heart healthy during heart month
February is American Heart Month, and although this has the designated name, a heart can be kept healthy year around.… MORE
East side fire destroys apartment building, injures firefighter
Bloomington firefighters battled a blaze that consumed a 12-unit apartment building near the intersection of Empire Street and Gettysburg Drive this afternoon.… MORE
MCCA, Com Ed partner to support energy bills in Livingston County
Mid Central Community Action and Com Ed are teaming up to help families in Livingston County struggling to pay their energy bills with the Residential Special Hardship Fund.… MORE
Loyola professor urges citizen to advocate for undocumented immigrants
What do you do with your privilege? That is the core question raised by a woman who started her life in America as an undocumented immigrant.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…