The Bloomington campus launched Ivy Tech’s first evening nursing program for healthcare professionals who want to become registered nurses Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington has graduated its first cohort of 19 nurses who completed the new evening Transition to ASN (RN) cohort, all on time. The innovative evening nursing training option launched in fall 2025 and was the first of its kind to be offered at Ivy Tech statewide.
“This represents 19 new registered nurses for Indiana, above and beyond the students we normally train,” said Chancellor Erik Coyne, Ivy Tech Bloomington. “It also represents a real game changer for working professionals, their families, and our regional healthcare partners.”
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In this post, David Martin of David Martin Design looks at a question most business owners never pause to ask: if a platform, vendor, or former employee disappeared tomorrow, what could you still get into, move, and keep running? He draws a practical line between the parts of your digital presence you genuinely control and the parts you are only borrowing.
The guidance sorts these pieces into two categories: the foundation worth protecting (including your domain, website, customer records, and backups) and the outside channels you use for reach (such as social media, search, and reviews). His rule of thumb is to own the foundation and rent the reach, so no single change to a platform or provider can risk the whole operation. He also touches on a newer concern: understanding where your business information goes once your team starts using AI tools. For members who want a starting point, the article includes a simple digital ownership audit and a downloadable worksheet for recording who controls each account and how it could be recovered. Read the full post: https://davidmartindesign.com/resources/digital-ownership-for-small-businesses/ The City of Bloomington’s Safety Week will run August 22-28 as part of the ongoing Safe Streets and Roads for All Action Plan, the City’s effort to improve transportation options and make Bloomington safer and more accessible for everyone who travels its streets.
Safety Week features a series of events designed to gather resident feedback, foster community collaboration, and bring people together around safer streets. Three evening events offer residents opportunities to bike, connect with City staff, and participate in activities for a range of ages. Events include:
In addition to the evening slate of events, the City will host pop-up booths at several locations throughout the city. Neighbors are invited to stop by for a brief, interactive survey question. LPS Brain Wellness, a branch of LPS Behavioral Health, is now offering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), an FDA-cleared, non-invasive treatment designed to support mood, focus, and overall brain function.
TMS therapy uses gentle magnetic pulses to stimulate targeted areas of the brain associated with mood regulation and cognitive function. Sessions are completed in the office, take approximately 30 minutes, require no anesthesia, and allow patients to return immediately to their normal routines. Individuals often explore TMS when experiencing:
August finds the Waldron rich in local talent, with the opening of two new shows and an extension of our current Spotlight Gallery Show, Reflections, by M. Griffin.
In the Miller and Educational Galleries, the Bloomington Arts Commission presents Stepping Stones: 2025 Artistic Advancement Grant Recipients. On display is a wide selection of works from these grant recipients, showcasing from painting, drawing, fiber arts, printmaking, music, filmmaking, and glass. Through their generous support, the BAC awards the Artistic Advancement Grant every year to support artists in the pursuit of their practice. The funds are used for anything applying to this goal. Join us this Friday to have a look at the work on display, as well as catch performances from musicians and dancers. Gloria Manzanares Romero and Emily Zarse present their new show, The Pregnant Form, in the Treasury Gallery. Referencing their personal archives of over 500 historic photographs from the 1940s through early 2000s depicting pregnancy, the artists have created an intimate display of gestural drawings and paintings as well as photographs. The work explores themes of intimacy, memory, and historical documentation, as well as the invisible labor of family archiving. The Mill, Bloomington's hub for entrepreneurship and innovation, will celebrate the completion of a major renovation project on Thursday, August 20, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. ET. The celebration will be held at The Mill, in the heart of Bloomington's Trades District.
The renovations strengthen The Mill's ability to serve Bloomington's entrepreneurs and startups with improved collaboration spaces, 30 additional individual workspaces, three new private offices, and a greatly enhanced event space featuring upgraded technology, acoustics, and privacy. “Expanding our capacity represents another major milestone for The Mill,” said John Fernandez, Amplify Bloomington CEO. “By supporting the innovators building businesses at The Mill, we're shaping Bloomington's economic future.” The Mill, managed by Amplify Bloomington, is owned by the City of Bloomington's Redevelopment Commission, a Keystone Partner of Amplify Bloomington.  There is a version of your website you have never seen. When we talk about web accessibility, we are talking about the site a person hears instead of reads, or moves through with a keyboard instead of a mouse. It is the version someone gives up on because light gray text on a white background isn’t readable in a sunlit parking lot. For a meaningful number of your customers, that version is the only version there is. In April, a federal accessibility deadline that had been years in the making moved. That has a lot of people talking about accessibility as a legal problem. The legal picture is worth understanding, and I will walk through it below. But it is the less interesting half of the story, and if it is the only reason you act, you will probably spend money on the wrong things.
Here is what real web accessibility actually means, what the rules do and do not require, why the one-click widgets are not the answer, and six things you can check on your own site this week without hiring anyone. Strike up some fun and aim for change. Join us for a fun-filled happy hour at Hoosier Alley, supporting Monroe County CASA. Whether you know about CASA, or are new to the work we do, you can have some fun while showing up for abused and neglected kids in our community. $25 includes VIP bowling, ax throwing, and a pizza buffet. Cash bar available. Sponsored by IU Credit Union and Hoosier Alley. Tickets: https://bit.ly/aimforadvocacy  The American Public Works Association (APWA) has awarded full accreditation to the City of Bloomington Department of Public Works after evaluators determined the department is 100 percent compliant with all management practices applied to its operations.
The designation makes Bloomington only the second APWA-accredited public works agency in Indiana, joining Fishers. The accreditation remains valid through July 30, 2030. “This took years of work, honest evaluation, and a lot of people pulling in the same direction,” said Public Works Director Adam Wason. “Our staff proved that the way we serve Bloomington meets the highest standards in the profession. I’m incredibly proud of this team and grateful to everyone across the City who helped get us here.” The Thomson Administration has submitted the City of Bloomington’s proposed 2027 budget to the Common Council, beginning a public review process that will continue through early October. The 2027 Budget Book, raw budget data, the approved 2026 budget, and additional information are available at bloomington.in.gov/budget.
The proposal focuses on maintaining the municipal services residents rely on, protecting the City’s existing infrastructure and other public assets, and directing available resources toward housing, homelessness, public safety and economic opportunity. Its broader goal is to support a safe, well-maintained city where residents can find a place to call home, a good-paying job and a community of belonging. The City expects Indiana’s property and income tax changes under Senate Enrolled Act 1 (SEA 1) to reduce local government revenue over the next several years, with greater effects by 2029. The Administration responded with a conservative 2027 proposal and continues to evaluate long-term strategies to preserve essential services. |
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