Bloom Archives
Category: Community
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The Warehouse Offers Play Space for Kids of All Ages (Photo Gallery)
The first time Dave Weil visited the former RCA television facility at 1525 S. Rogers St. in 2009, all he saw was an abandoned…
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Bloomington Refugee Network Now Helping Asylum Seekers Here
Exhausted migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America, many of them running for their lives from political violence and lawlessness in their home…
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Community Foundation Grants Make Innovative Efforts Possible
“We want Bloomington to be a place where everyone succeeds,” says Tina Peterson, president and CFO of the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe…
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City’s Barbara McKinney Wins Statewide ADA Award
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990, cities across the country were faced with compliance issues. Barbara McKinney had been…
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Better Angels: Bringing Red and Blue Together
On a Saturday morning in December, Republicans and Democrats came together in a Monroe County Public Library meeting room, hoping to learn to better…
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Podcast Offers ‘The Lowdown’ on Bloomington Happenings
While casting around for a new project last fall, Bloomington singer-songwriter Jeremy Shere (Songs in the Key of B-town, 2015), a self-professed fan of…
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Why Is Anti-Semitism Rising? Scholars of Hate to Convene Here
Desecrated graves, bomb threats, and scrawled swastikas aren’t new, but in recent years there has been a marked increase of attacks on Jewish communities…
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Dare to Test Your Expertise? Enter the VITAL Quiz Bowl
Since 1977, the Monroe County Public Library (MCPL) VITAL program—Volunteers in Tutoring Adult Learners—has provided free literacy instruction for adults, both native speakers and…
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Buddhist Cultural Center Celebrates 40 Years Here
The dharmachakra (wheel of dharma) that adorns the entry gate of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center (TMBCC) is almost luminous, freshly gilded for…