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Community Invited to Celebrate 31st Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act
The City of Bloomington Council for Community Accessibility (CCA) invites community members to a celebration of the 31st anniversary of the signing of the…
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Parks & Rec Passport to Play Is a ‘Bucket List for Parents’
Kids will have no reason to say there’s nothing to do this summer thanks to the new City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department…
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Indoor Places for Little Kids To Play
BY PETER DORFMAN Bloomington is known as a playful city, but it isn’t always easy to find spur-of-the-moment activities for small children, especially when…
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What Are You Reading?
BY CRAIG COLEY Jo Ann Vogt Coordinator, Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services If Jo Ann Vogt, 62, could make everyone read just one book,…
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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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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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MCPL Sensory-Friendly Films Mean No ‘Shushing’ Allowed
With the lights up and the volume down, the Monroe County Public Library (MCPL) Autism & Sensory-Friendly Movie program flips all expectations of what…
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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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Friends of Lake Monroe Working to Improve Health of Local Watershed
Bloomington resident and retired hydrologist Sherry Mitchell-Bruker had a troubled day of kayaking on Lake Monroe several years ago. “I saw blue-green algae in…