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A Monroe County institution will close after nearly four decades as Buddy Bill's Bait Barn sells its last nightcrawler this coming Sunday; city officials are negotiating to buy the rest of the old CSX rail switchyard to create Bloomington "Central Park"; Indiana State Police's Curt Durnil says Thursday's detainment of anti-I-69 activist Philip Shelton was not in his database because it wasn't an ISP action but rather a state task force utilizing ISP resources, as the task force targets Shelton and takes his DNA for alleged connections to Roadblock EarthFirst operatives; Indiana University police nab the perp in what might be their first-ever drive-by punching; the Pastors for Peace humanitarian aid caravan bound for Cuba is in Bloomington right now as local donations are loaded onto a bus for delivery to our sister city.
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It’s Bloomington’s most unfortunate legacy; decades of contamination of local air, water and soil from PCBs, a toxic byproduct from electrical capacitors at Bloomington’s former Westinghouse plant at 300 North Curry Pike. CBS now owns the site and a remediation workplan is moving forward this summer to clean it up. An Indiana company called Focus Contracting will begin excavating soon, with plans to complete the remediation by the end of fall. The cleanup will be fully supervised by the EPA under the charge of project manager Tom Alcamo, who outlines the specific details of the work about to begin in this WFHB radio exclusive.
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Hear about tomorrow’s public curriculum summit to gather input on what will be taught at The Project School, Bloomington’s first public charter school opening next month on our weekly segment spotlighting people working for positive change in our community.