Bloom Archives
Craig Coley
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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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Cityâs 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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Mary & Morris Hickman Foster Parents
In 29 years of foster parenting, Mary Hickman and her husband, Morris, helped raise 54 foster children alongside their own four children. Some of…
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Stone Belt: Serving People With Disabilities for 60 Years
Today, Stone Belt is a $21 million nonprofit agency that supports 1,300 people with disabilities in three counties. Sixty years ago, Stone Belt was…
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Rose Hill Cemetery Bicentennial: A Brief History and Curious Facts
Like many memorial parks built in the 1800s, Bloomington’s Rose Hill Cemetery is a meditative space with meandering paths and open vistas.
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IRA Offers Tools to Help Address Opioid Epidemic
As the country struggles to address the opioid epidemic, the Indiana Recovery Alliance (IRA) offers local communities tools to directly address two of the…
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Lilly Grant Helps Educators Teach Science in Local Elementary Schools
Bloomington-based Regional Opportunities Initiatives (ROI) is helping local teachers create STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) opportunities for studentsâpreparing them for technical careersâwith grant…
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Marvin Sterling: Anthropology Professor
Marvin Sterling, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University, studies Japanese devotees of Jamaican cultureâan interest piqued by a doll he saw in a…
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The Dog House: B-townâs Only Cage-Free Doggy Day Care
To a dog, The Dog House probably seems a lot more like home than a kennel. Thatâs because The Dog House is Bloomingtonâs first…