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Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market coordinator Marcia Veldman will spend the last day in her position at the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department on Thursday according to her email to vendors at the market. Her resignation ends her 24 years of overseeing the market’s operations.
People walk through the aisles of vendors at the Bloomington Community Farmers' Market near City Hall in 2018. A group of staff in the parks department will take over the duties of the farmers market coordinator in the interim period after longtime coordinator Marcia Veldman’s resignation.
About a dozen self-described “old punks” and members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network met at noon Saturday in Peoples Park to discuss their past activism, their present lives and concerns about the future.
Members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network pose for a photo in front of the mural in Peoples Park. The group came from a variety of backgrounds and locations, including Seattle and Roanoke, Virginia.
Monroe County prosecuting attorney Erika Oliphant issued arrest warrants for Sean M. Purdy and Jerry Edward Cox II on Friday after the Department of Natural Resources report was released Thursday about the Fourth of July encounter between Vauhxx Booker and several people at Lake Monroe.
A crowd of protesters listens as people take turns sharing the changes they would like to see in the community July 10 in Peoples Park.
A fifth Bloomington city employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. According to a press release by the City of Bloomington, the employee does not usually interact with the public in his day-to-day work.
Lights shine July 13 on the mural in Peoples Park. "Black lives matter" was painted over the mural following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May.
The Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce announced Friday the installation of a historical marker commemorating the Black Market firebombed by a KKK-linked white supremacist in 1968, according to a release.
Protests continued Friday to demand justice for Vauhxx Booker, a Monroe County human rights commissioner who was assaulted by men with confederate flags a week ago at Lake Monroe. Protesters gathered at 6 p.m. at Peoples Park, following a press conference with Katharine Liell, Booker’s attorney.
A crowd of protesters listens as people take turns sharing the changes they would like to see in the community July 10 in Peoples Park. The protest was peaceful despite threats reportedly made on Facebook by counterprotesters prior to the protest.
A BLM B-Town core councilmember speaks July 10 in Peoples Park. He encouraged people in the crowd to use the megaphone to express the reforms they would like to see in the city.
“This machine kills fascists,” a megaphone reads July 10 in Peoples Park. Speakers spoke in front of the Bloomington mural that has been repainted to read “Black lives matter.”
Vauhxx Booker speaks July 10 in Peoples Park. ”They targeted me, they attacked me, because they thought they could get away with it,” he said as he spoke on the attack that occurred July 4 near Monroe Lake.
Bloomington organizations have ramped up efforts to promote racial equity and support Black people in the local community since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
A car drove through a crowd and hit two protesters just before 9:30 p.m. Monday night as Bloomington residents were dispersing on Walnut Street after three and a half hours of peaceful protest. The protest was in response to the attack on Vauhxx Booker at Lake Monroe on the Fourth of July.
A complaint of passengers on a boat yelling profanities directed at another boat with a flag supporting president Donald Trump on Monroe Lake ended Wednesday with the arrest of a man who wasn't on either boat.
The City of Bloomington is planning to create a bike trail on the south side of Seventh Street in 2021. The trail, which will be called the 7-Line, will provide a safer, easier connection for all travelers between the IU campus, downtown, the B-Line Trail and surrounding neighborhoods, according to the city.
During the pandemic, many people have been spending time outside where wide-open space and fresh air provide natural barriers to spreading the virus and a change in scenery.
The city had the first of four public discussions about the IU Health Bloomington Hospital site redevelopment process on Zoom on Tuesday evening.
