The final Hershey Weed Patch story

By: Diane Benjamin Previous: https://blnnews.com/2023/09/02/the-hershey-road-weeds-again/ https://blnnews.com/2023/08/23/update-to-the-hershey-road-island/ The weed island at the crosswalk to nowhere got mowed: That isn’t grass and it wasn’t mowed well, likely because a small mower wasn’t used: I found out the City of Bloomington also did the island at the corner of Towanda Barnes and Ireland Grove. In order to “maintain” […]

More “Let’s create work for government employees”

By: Diane Benjamin Add the following to this story: https://blnnews.com/2023/06/15/maintenance-that-could-have-been-avoided/ Hershey road south of Ireland Grove road was down to 2 lanes for quite awhile. The City of Bloomington had to install this: Now some City employee gets to mow what looks like a crossing for a future trail extension. The concrete pad on the […]