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Researchers have examined the effectiveness of preparation versus security when addressing mass shootings. For this in-depth article, Rebecca Hill interviewed several local and national experts and compiled data on using a public health approach. | Photo by NEOSiAM 2021 from Pexels

Preparation vs. Security in Preventing Mass Shootings
Rebecca Hill
As a nation, mass shootings are “part of our social fabric,” writes Rebecca Hill. She interviewed several local and national experts on how to better address mass shootings, especially in schools and businesses. Her in-depth report looks at research on mass shootings through a public health approach — and the effectiveness of preparation versus security. Click here to read the article.
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Steve Hinnefeld was a reporter at the Herald-Times from 1980 to 2007, when it employed up to 59 people in the newsroom. Now it has 12. Limestone Post asked Hinnefeld to look at several media outlets that report the daily news in Bloomington. He found that the local news landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years.

Changes in Daily Local News Landscape Have Consequences
Steve Hinnefeld
What happens when local news coverage disappears? Limestone Post asked journalist Steve Hinnefeld to look at the daily news landscape in Bloomington. He interviewed people at several local news outlets and filed this report. The landscape has changed recently in subtle and dramatic ways — some for the better, some not so much. Click here to read about who’s reporting B-town’s daily news.
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It wasn’t until Sean Chung volunteered for a local environmental group that he realized how destructive invasive plants were to the integrity of local ecosystems. In Monroe County, the invasion is held at bay by individuals, neighborhood associations, nonprofit organizations, local government, and even the U.S. Forest Service. The Park Ridge East neighborhood, for example, took advantage of a city grant program to install a native plant garden (pictured) to provide a habitat for butterflies and other pollinators. | Limestone Post

Keeping Invasive Plants at Bay to Prevent ‘Ecological Collapse’
Sean Chung
Before volunteering for a local environmental group, Sean Chung was unaware of the problems invasive plants were causing here in Monroe County and “every single community in the U.S.” For this article, he interviewed people working to “contain the invasion” and prevent the kind of “ecological collapse” that invasives can cause. Click here to read the article.
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The 4th Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts returns to Bloomington on Labor Day weekend. The number of booths will be reduced to 80 from the pre-pandemic 125 (pictured), but for many of the artists, this will be the first show they’ve been able to do in 18 months. Many say they are looking forward to meeting with patrons and other artists in person again.

4th Street Art Festival Returns Labor Day Weekend Artists and Patrons Are Ready!
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The 4th Street Art Festival returns to Bloomington on Labor Day weekend. For many artists, this will be the first show they’ve been able to do in 18 months. While 2020 was a challenging year, it was also a time of introspection, creativity, and experimentation. And now artists and art lovers are ready to meet in person. Click here to read about the 45th annual 4th Street Art Festival!
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Limestone Post’s Top Stories of 2020, a Most Unusual Year
Ron Eid
As we look forward to 2021, it might serve us well to remember how our community responded with remarkable resilience and resolve to the challenges we faced — and continue to face — in this exceptionally challenging year. Limestone Post’s talented and dependable contributors kept us informed on many of the important topics of the time. Click here to read about LP’s Top Stories of 2020.
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ASE Students Complete Annual ‘Sense of Place’ Project Despite Pandemic
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The annual “Sense of Place” project by students at The Academy of Science and Entrepreneurship shows “a sliver of each student’s identity,” writes student Richelle Elkes. But each student’s video, she adds, “gives the viewer a greater understanding of the young people in the community and how their values affect the community of Bloomington.” Click here to read about the project and watch their videos.
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Theater Residency at The Hundredth Hill Creates Art During Pandemic
Dason Anderson, Grayson Pitts
Krista Detor and Dave Weber’s artist retreat, The Hundredth Hill, has served since August as a theater residency for a troupe of recent graduates from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Not only has the group created two productions but they will also perform them for live audiences — an all but unheard-of feat in theater during the pandemic. Click here for the story.
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Book Excerpt: ‘Minister’s Daughter: One Life, Many Lives’ by Charlotte Zietlow
Charlotte Zietlow, Michael G. Glab
Before becoming a local political powerhouse in Bloomington, Charlotte Zietlow and her husband, Paul, spent a year in Czechoslovakia as part of an educational exchange program. She says in her new memoir, “Minister’s Daughter: One Life, Many Lives,” with Michael G. Glab, that the experience proved American democracy was worth fighting for. Click here to read an excerpt from the book.
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Abby Ang at the People’s Market CSA drive-thru on March 28. Ang and a group of vendors, community organizers, and university professors began meeting last year to plan what would become the People’s Market, “a farmers market model unprecedented in Bloomington and Indiana,” writes Ellen Wu for Limestone Post. The group had to “reorient swiftly to the drive-thru CSA once it became obvious that COVID-19 would upend everything.” | Limestone Post

Ethos of New People’s Market Focuses on Food Justice, Mutual Aid
Ellen Wu
A group of vendors, community organizers, and university professors began meeting last year to plan what would become the People’s Market, “a farmers market model unprecedented in Bloomington and Indiana,” writes IU history professor Ellen Wu. When COVID-19 “upended everything,” the group quickly reoriented to create a drive-thru CSA. Click here to read about the People’s Market.
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A lone bike rider on the nearly empty streets of Bloomington, Indiana, March 25, 2020. Local officials, organizations, and individuals have developed programs and resources to help people trying to cope during the COVID-19 crisis. | Limestone Post

List of COVID-19 Resources for Bloomington and Monroe County
Limestone Post
Bloomington and Monroe County officials, organizations, and individuals have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by developing programs and resources to help people trying to cope in the pandemic. Limestone Post has compiled this list for people who need help, who want to help, or who just want more information. Click here for the list.
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A project by the Monroe County Plan Commission is designed to turn a 100-acre former quarry property northwest of Bloomington into a limestone heritage park that would highlight the history of the local limestone industry and the art of stonecutting, as well as provide an arts venue open to the public. | Photo by Geoff McKim

Monroe County Commission Plans Limestone Quarry Heritage Park
Laurie D. Borman
Writer Laurie D. Borman reports on a project by the Monroe County Plan Commission to turn a 100-acre former quarry property into a limestone heritage park that would highlight the history of the local limestone industry and the art of stonecutting, as well as provide an arts venue open to the public. (Posted: No Swimming.) Click here to read the full story.
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Photographer M.J. Bower photographed more than 30 murals in Bloomington to create a Bloomington Mural Trail. This mural, ‘Love This City,’ was painted by Eva Allen on the side of Mother Bear’s Pizza’s east-side location in spring 2019. The full list of murals is at the end of the article, as is a link to The Bloomington Trail Map. | Photo by M.J. Bower

The Murals of Bloomington — Photos and Trail Map
M.J. Bower
Murals provide “a splash of color” in downtown Bloomington during the winter when most natural color has gone dormant, writes M.J. Bower. She photographed more than 30 local murals for this photo essay on an art form that has existed since prehistoric cave paintings. She also created a Bloomington Mural Trail for some outdoor winter fun. Click here to see the Murals of Bloomington and Trail Map.
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