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Baron Hill helps pass tax relief going into effect today in the form of more take-home pay in your payroll check; the Cinemat video store finishes selling off its inventory after closing rental operations last month; an Indiana Supreme Court justice visits Bloomington to talk about how judges think; the Bloomington Farmer’s Market opens this weekend; a literary scholar who re-interprets the works of Geoffrey Chaucer turns The Canterbury Tales into a rap song tonight in Bloomington; the Area 10 Agency on Aging asks for help raising money in the upcoming Homeward Bound 5K walk; owners of Bloomington’s Oliver Winery are honored for supporting agriculture in Monroe County; the campus group Indiana Students Against War hold a teach-in on campus tomorrow.
FEATURE
The country’s most dreaded pest insect has landed in Monroe County, prompting a quarantine on moving local firewood. The emerald ash borer is an invasive green beetle that is devastating North American ash trees. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has found proof of the ash borer in Polk Township in Monroe County. In September, the DNR confirmed an ash borer presence in Hamblin Township in Brown County. How did it get here, and what does it mean for the ash trees lining our streets, parks, and yards? Experts from Purdue Agriculture, the Indiana DNR and representatives from the Hoosier National Forest held a forum last month to answer these questions and more, as we go on-location to City Hall with DNR compliance officer Ken Cote in a WFHB exclusive.
BLOOMINGTON BEWARE!
Refund Anticipation Loans are legal but predatory. Host Richard Fish exposes RALs and even more outrageous tax-time scams in a new edition of our weekly consumer watchdog Bloomington Beware!