By: Diane Benjamin More on this story: https://blnnews.com/2024/09/30/will-downs-choose-flooding-over-people/ Thursday the Board will decide whether to annex a corn field that drains downhill to an area prone to flooding. Below are a few pictures from the horrendous Shaddyville flooding of 2021. Note the field was able to absorb some of the rain then. Concrete doesn’t absorb […]
By: Diane Benjamin It will help understand this issue is you’ve driven Rt 150 from Bloomington to Downs. Right before the turn south to go through Downs there is a very low area called Shaddyville. The Kickapoo Creek runs along the south edge. The houses are older and not incorporated into the Village of Downs. […]
By: Diane Benjamin The minutes of the Downs July meeting have been posted. See a copy here: Meeting_Minutes_july_7_2016 This permanent record of Council proceedings will forever say LAWS don’t matter. Mayor James didn’t respond to Council member Mary Goveia’s request for the liquor reports. Mayor James didn’t show up for a scheduled meeting with Mary […]
