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Daily Local News - July 1, 2009

WFHB News — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:08:21 -0700

Indiana University president Michael McRobbie says trustees will get right to work on setting tuition rates for the fall now that a state budget has passed; Indian Creek Fire Fighters president Dee Owens says the outsourcing of township fire protection services means a thirty-minute response time to local fires; the local American Veterans post that sponsors the annual stadium fireworks is seriously short on donations needed to pull off the show; the public comment period on Sections 2 and 3 of the I-69 highway proposal ends and project office hours are reduced to one day per week; a Bloomington GLBT rights organization will stage a sit-in at the local marriage license counter tomorrow; state health officials predict a higher incidence of West Nile virus this year; Brown County's Richard Schrimper sells the rights to his trees to a conservation group that will forever protect them; the city animal shelter extends two-for-one cat adoptions through July.
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Daily Local News - June 30, 2009

WFHB News — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:59 -0700

Peggy Welch emails us from the House floor with an update on the just-passed state budget; Indiana University trustee Philip Eskew Jr. is re-elected to a second term by IU alumni; Indian Creek Firefighters are surprised to learn of a public meeting organized by the township trustee after the outsourcing of fire protection services to a Greene County squad; Ivy Tech Bloomington goes smoke-free effective August 4; a Bloomington expert on Central American politics says the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Sunday is quite different from those of the past in that the U.S. government is NOT supporting it; a senior citizen version of the Amber Alert program goes into effect tomorrow thanks in part to local lawmaker Vi Simpson.
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Daily Local News - June 29, 2009

WFHB News — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:47:21 -0700

A shutdown of state government approaches as time is running out for lawmakers to agree on a new budget; Indiana University prepares to dip into reserves to keep campuses open if a state budget is not approved tomorrow; the Federal Highway Administration may be threatening to pull all of Bloomington's road construction funding over a local property in the path of I-69; residents in The Pointe near Bloomington will experience an extended power outage tomorrow; a Bloomington prosecutor's case against a former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor is complicated by Dennie Oxley's drunken encounter with police on Friday; a local law professor says a Supreme Court ruling issued today is good news for consumers; the commander of the Bloomington Post of the Indiana State Police will be beefing up police patrols of local roadways this Fourth of July weekend; a new support group has formed in Lawrence County for people who deal with Alzheimer’s Disease; a group of scientists working i

Daily Local News - June 26, 2009

WFHB News — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:18:55 -0700

A crash involving a semi shuts down part of State Road 37 in Lawrence County; the Iranian community of Bloomington will hold a candlelight vigil in memory of those who have lost their lives in recent protests against the presidential elections in Iran; an H1N1 outbreak shuts down a residential Jewish camp 100 miles east of Bloomington; Indiana University will tap its reserves to keep campuses open if a new state budget is not approved next week; a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists warns Indiana that climate change means its summers will continue to get hotter; the Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on campus this evening celebrates the end of slavery; the Fallen Officer Blood Drive campaign will stop in Bloomington on Monday; extended coverage of today's opening of the B-Line Trail puts you in the front row at the ribboncutting with city parks and rec director Mick Renneisen and Mayor Mark Kruzan.
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Daily Local News - June 25, 2009

WFHB News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:10:33 -0700

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Daily Local News - June 24, 2009

WFHB News — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:42:56 -0700

State environmental officials warn of high ozone levels today in the WFHB listening area and offer tips for coping with the high heat and humidity; a power outage at the YMCA disrupts the facility's normal schedule; Vi Simpson says Senate Democrats are unhappy with school funding formulas in the Senate version of the budget bill; Bloomington Area Arts Council executive director Rob Hanrahan promotes Roger Meredith to Director of Operations; spring bloomed new tourism records in Brown County as a special promotion boosted gains in shop revenues and innkeepers taxes; installation begins on a multi-million dollar pipe organ at Indiana University's School of Music; IU police academy recruits are training on defibrillators and CPR; district 5 city council member Isabel Piedmont-Smith will hold a constituent meeting on Saturday; Bloomington's Environmental Commission teams up with a local organic farm to give away free native plants at the farmers' market.
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Daily Local News - June 23, 2009

WFHB News — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:13:16 -0700

An estranged Brown County wife faces charges of murder, arson and burglary as her ex-husband’s mobile home goes up in flames; building commissioner Jim Gerstbauer explains fee increases in permits for construction or alteration of a building in Monroe County; a stretch of county road washed out by thunderstorms is a headache for county highway department director John Chambers, who wishes it would stop raining so he can get some work done; city Public Works Director Susie Johnson discusses the conversion of on-street parking to bicycle parking on Grant Street, the city's requirement for bicycle parking outside all multi-unit housing, and adding more bike sidepaths on city streets; local food meets political action next week in a vegan dinner to raise money for the legal defense fund of two anti-I-69 activists; the Bloomington Area Arts Council appoints veteran staffer Roger Meredith as the council’s first Director of Operations.
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Daily Local News - June 22, 2009

WFHB News — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:58:50 -0700

Severe thunderstorms this morning flood local roads and cause power outages; city planners OK two new four-story apartment buildings just north of the downtown core; friends and family of the late Libby Yarnelle move the upcoming memorial service to a public park to accommodate an anticipated large turnout; city officials will throw a party Friday to celebrate the opening of the B-Line Trail; Attorney General Greg Zoeller will be in town tomorrow to talk about the state's stash of unclaimed property in Monroe County and an upcoming help session for homeowners facing foreclosure; this fall Indiana University will welcome its first group of "Yellow Ribbon" military veterans using a new GI Bill to cover the costs of college.
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Daily Local News - June 19, 2009

WFHB News — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:33:49 -0700

Former Mother Hubbard's Cupboard director Libby Yarnelle succumbs to cancer at age twenty-nine; an eighty-foot dive into a local limestone quarry spells death for a Bloomington resident; the Monroe County Voting Systems Advisory Council recommends using paper ballots that would then be digitally scanned, Bloomington’s unemployment rate rose to six percent last month; a state Senate panel amends the House-passed budget bill to more closely resemble Governor Mitch Daniels’ two-year fiscal blueprint, and local lawmaker Vi Simpson criticizes a "continuance" bill that would allow the state to continue to operate if a budget is not passed before the June 30 deadline; the local jail reform group Decarcerate Monroe County will visit the jail Sunday to support dads and sons on Father's Day.
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Daily Local News - June 18, 2009

WFHB News — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:13:04 -0700

We’ve seen almost three times the normal amount of rain for June and more is on the way; strong wind south of Worthington knocks over several empty train cars; an AFL-CIO rep discusses tomorrow's picket of the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce for its lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act; a new GLBT rights organization in Bloomington will stage a sit-in at the marriage license counter in the Monroe County Justice Building; sixteen local agencies receive grants from the city of Bloomington's Jack Hopkins social services fund; 22 new cases of H1N1 in Indiana bring the state total up to 223; a downtown parking space along Grant Street is converted to on-street bicycle parking; the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will offer a public forum in Bloomington on the first comprehensive assessment of Indiana forests since the eighties; a local jail reform group will provide support to incarcerated dads this Father's Day.
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