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10/12/2025

Faces and scenes from Fort Ouiatenon, on a day of nearly perfect weather for Day 1 of Tippecanoe County Historical Association's 58th annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon-Official.

📸 📸📸: BiL correspondent Vincent Walter.

Check out the faces and scenes our photographer found Saturday on opening day of Tippecanoe County Historical Association’s annual 18th century re-enactment. Gates open at 9 a.m. Sunday for Day 2.

10/10/2025

Purdue trustees today gave President Mung Chiang an extended contract, a 30% raise and a big bump in retention bonuses.

They said they want to keep Chiang around in West Lafayette and consider him in high demand.

New rolling five-year deal bumps president’s pay by 30% and more than doubles retention bonuses, pushing compensation to $1.4 million, as trustees say Chiang ‘is in high demand’

10/09/2025

It's what you'll be doing this week. Tim's Picks at your service. Previews featuring ...

➡️ The annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon-Official at Fort Ouiatenon Tippecanoe County Historical Association
➡️ A last chance exhibit at Purdue Galleries
➡️ Some ABBA for you at The Long Center
➡️Beetlejuice Jr. at Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette
➡️Metal via the The Doom Room at North End Pub
➡️Greater Lafayettte!, a tribute to Lafayette's Bicentennial from the Lafayette Master Chorale at Lafayette Jeff's Jaeger Theater
➡️ ACORN Players of Lafayette,'s 'Let the Right One In' at Sunnyside.

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Here’s what you’ll be doing for the next few days.

10/09/2025

How'd you like them apples?

Thanks, everyone, who made Market Report work this season.

Soak up those final weeks, Lafayette Farmer's Market West Lafayette Farmers Market Purdue Farmers Market.

Winding down a farmers market season with the sweet tastes of autumn: Apples, pears and more

10/08/2025

Purdue's engineering dean tapped by President Donald Trump for undersecretary role in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Dean Arvind Raman would oversee National Institute of Standards and Technology. Plus, Sen. Spencer Deery looks at reviving IEDC oversight legislation after audit.

10/08/2025

CityBus' CEO says the blame for this week's emergency elimination of the Connector route — a free line between downtown Lafayette and Purdue — isn’t directly on a contract cut by Purdue, but deeper issues about to play out in Greater Lafayette’s public transportation system.

The financial cliff CityBus predicted two years ago is nearly here.

CityBus CEO says the blame isn’t on a contract cut by Purdue, but deeper issues about to play out in Greater Lafayette’s public transportation system.

10/07/2025

Lafayette Fire Department's proposed $500 fee for non-emergency lifting assistance at nursing homes and assisted living facilities splits the Lafayette City Council.

Here's why ...

Takeaways from Monday’s city council meetings: Tax break endorsed for $340M Sustainea project in Lafayette. New maps shed light on rentals in WL neighborhoods. Rainbow Trout Solar goes to court.

10/07/2025

Neighbors fighting the location for a $3.87 billion SK hynix advanced chip packaging facility in West Lafayette aren't letting up. Monday's city council meeting was more proof of that.

But is there enough traction to overturn a 6-3 rezoning vote from May? A BiL survey of council members says: Not much.

Council members aren’t moving, as neighbors look to reverse a May vote to rezone land for a $3.87 billion semiconductor facility. Plus, Lafayette’s stands alone on new gas station regulations

10/03/2025

Jennifer Rae Teising, explaining things as she represented herself Friday in court: "I’m new here.”

The judge: “I get that.”

An afternoon in court in the former Wabash Township trustee's defamation case against a host of township officials, employees.

Judge warns former trustee that next time would be different. Meanwhile, hearing gets delayed as Teising, representing herself, surprises court with last-minute changes to original complaint.

10/02/2025

Zoning code proposal floated as a pause on large-scale data centers, for now, in Tippecanoe County.

Here's how ...

Plus, Teising, Wabash Township lob more accusations ahead of day in court Friday. And what neighbors want in a revised West Lafayette downtown plan

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