Here's your local news at a glance for Saturday, the 31st of October.
Good morning, Bloomington.
Ivy Tech Community College is offering a business checkup valuation service now to help main-street owners prepare for succession, and it is piloting the program across the Indiana Uplands this winter with the Governor’s Office and partners in Orange and Martin counties.
Electronic artist Fisher played a Victory Lap Indiana concert at the Bloomington Speedway on Oct.
29, with openers AYYBO + Zane; early entry began at 4 p.m., and the show ended around 10:30 p.m. with fireworks and video-screen visuals.
ESPN's College GameDay will tape at Showalter Fountain and staff will inspect signs, banning vulgar, religious, political messages, website URLs, oversized signs, and signs on poles from the broadcast area (those rules are applied as viewpoint-neutral), while protected speech is allowed outside the filming zone.
An exhibition of 29 photographs by Margaret Bourke-White and Sunil Janah will open Nov.
12 at IU’s McCalla Center, exploring partition, independence, famine, and workers' lives; a free opening reception is 4 to 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12 in Gallery 202 (525 E. Ninth St.).
Ivy Tech will offer no-cost fiber optic and network installer training in Bloomington, Fort Wayne, and Valparaiso after a $3 million gift from Google to prepare students for jobs building and maintaining broadband infrastructure.
County commissioners voted 2-1 Thursday to remove two Monroe County Board of Health members before their terms ended, prompting board chair Dr. Lisa Hanner-Robinson and member Kay Leach to resign and leading commissioners to appoint three replacements as the department grapples with recent leadership losses and service disruptions.
The Indiana Court of Appeals denied the NCAA's request to expedite its appeal, so the preliminary injunction keeping fifth-year Hoosiers eligible remains in place and the NCAA has 30 days to file its opening brief as the case moves forward in 30-day increments.
Indiana will host Minnesota at 3:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium after a 13-6 overtime win at Michigan last weekend; the Hoosiers are 7-1 (4-1 Big Ten), Minnesota is 5-2 (3-1), and QB Josh Hoover is listed as probable.
Indiana Athletics announced Friday that Eli Lilly will display its logo in red lettering at midcourt and on opposite sidelines on Branch McCracken Court as part of a multiyear partnership with Learfield (financial terms were not disclosed); the Hoosiers host Eastern Illinois on Nov. 2 and the women play Florida Gulf Coast on Nov. 3.
Indiana basketball legend Isiah Thomas will be ESPN College GameDay’s guest picker Saturday, making his predictions on the GameDay set at Showalter Fountain as the show airs 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ahead of Indiana’s 3:30 p.m. kickoff vs. Minnesota.
Bloomington South and Bloomington North met in IHSAA sectional semifinals on Oct.
30, with South hosting Franklin (7 p.m.) and North traveling to Seymour; the winners will meet in an all-Bloomington sectional final on Friday, Nov. 6.
No. 15 Indiana field hockey lost 2-1 at No. 18 Rutgers in Piscataway on Friday after Rutgers scored twice late in the first half, closing Indiana's regular season on a four-game losing streak.
The Hoosiers will await Big Ten Tournament seeding as play begins Nov. 4 in Columbus.
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