This newscast aired at 6:04pm on 5-29-2025 on WGLT.
From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Ben Howell. A Bloomington counselor says the current mental health crisis has left some in need unable to find help due to a shortage of therapists. Licensed clinical and professional counselor Cary Company says friends and family can help those in need who can't access therapy.
Talking with them, saying,
In a non-judgmental and in a very calm and curious way, asked the question, Hey, are you struggling? Do you want to talk or can I help you find someone who you can talk to?
Company says disinterest and old hobbies and refusal to participate in them are signs to look for in those struggling.
A proposed boost by the Trump administration to airport infrastructure spending is a long way from passage, but Central Illinois Regional Airport director Carl Olsen says it will help all airports, including the one in Bloomington. When you're using equipment in this day and age, it still has floppy disks, or if you.
Go into an air traffic control tower, the cab of the tower, and you see paper flight strips. It's very safe, but it's just not the most efficient way. The proposal includes an additional $800 million bump for operations, including air traffic controllers and telecommunication systems.
A swath of grant cancellations by the National Endowment of the Arts significantly hampers a 50 year old literary journal housed at Illinois State University. Obsidian publishes print and digital media and hosts programs centering on art and literature from the African diaspora. Editor Dariel Harris says without the arts, communities wither. There's no scholarship if you don't have any poetry and any arts. There's, there's nothing to to.
Talk about Obsidian lost 2 grants. Anne McLean County Park staff is trying to keep Canada geese away from its beach at Kamlara Park near Hudson. Park's director Mike Steffa says bird droppings have contaminated the water at Glasner Beach with E. coli bacteria that's forced the county to temporarily close the beach. Steffa says the county has tried to scare away the geese with loud bangs and animal decoys. After a while, they become kind of used to it.
And it becomes ineffective. Steffa says the county is waiting for clearance from the Illinois Department of Public Health to reopen the beach. I'm Ben.