Replaceable furniture may be a modern convenience, but is it worth it? Woodworkers in and around Monroe County, who focus on sustainability and quality, say no. Read their stories.

The following essay is a reflection drawn from a paper written by Zilia Balkansky-Sellés for the June 2025 meeting of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) which she presented at ...

I wanted to be a writer. I was in a community where I had the opportunity to see writers and I was surrounded by a lot of readers. Bloomington native Michael Koryta, an internationally recognized ...

In February 2025, more than one thousand law professors and constitutional scholars, including sixteen from Indiana University, signed a bipartisan letter issued by the American Constitution Society ...

If you’ve ever driven along U.S. Route 150, which passes through Indiana from Vincennes to Floyds Knobs, you may have noticed a road sign depicting a silhouetted bison and the words, “Indiana’s ...

Many Americans say they have lost trust in national news — but most still believe they can rely on the accuracy of local news. In 2023, trust in national newspapers, TV, and radio reached historic ...

I was a spice loyalist. Take Greek seasoning. For years it had been my go-to flavor enhancer for soups, salads, roasted vegetables, pastas, fish, and rich beef stews. It came in a lovely pre-blended ...

To be inside the music, to hear it, to feel it, from within a group of musicians. To be surrounded by sound, to be one of the people creating that sound. “Incredible,” “amazing,” “extraordinary” are ...

Three months after being appointed superintendent of the Monroe County Community School Corporation, Markay Winston finds plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the district’s future, including ...

Editor’s note: Dallas Evans, formerly the lead curator of nature and science at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and most recently community development educator at Purdue University, joined ...

To the casual eye, the newsletter Today in Bloomington might seem like a legitimate landing place for local news, offering a daily roundup of stories from Bloomington-based news outlets such as The ...

Journalist Ida B. Wells spent much of her career in the late 1800s shedding light on the horrors of lynching. Some historians say she was the most famous Black woman in the U.S. during her lifetime.