Seven things you need to know

By: Diane Benjamiin 1) I had a cup of coffee at my Bloomington church yesterday. It tasted like dirt, now I know what all the social media posts about the water quality are talking about. The church has to buy a filter just to drink the water we pay a fortune for? We use very […]

Is Bloomington keeping the $1.4 million property?

By:  Diane Benjamin h/t a reader Follow-up to this story:  https://blnnews.com/2020/07/02/bloomington-5-years-and-no-news/ According to the reader: I was working around 807 N Main that you had in an article yesterday. There is no for sale sign on the property. The parking lot in the rear is being used for parking the vacuum trucks for the sewer […]

Town of Normal – Questionable Land Purchase – UPDATE 2

Received from the Town of Normal: Diane,   Wendy provided me a copy of your email and asked that I respond.  As you see from the documents supplied to you the Town Council authorized purchase of the parking lots from One Main for $500,000.  This was about $240,000 more than the amount budgeted for these […]