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Oh, little town of Bluffton

The Icon continues its nightly holiday window shopping walk down Main Street. We stopped at Diller Flooring and Interiors, 119 N. Main St. In this view you can see the tree in the Diller store window with a mirror image of Main Street lights and the Ream display lights in the church yard.

Blaze of Lights is on TourismOhio driveable lights trail

Bluffton is among stops in Cambridge, Zanesville, Gallipolis, Hamilton, Middletown, Troy, Columbus, Hebron, Delaware, Marion, Upper Sandusky and Fremont.

Bluffton’s Blaze of Lights is one of 16 stops on the 2020 Ohio driveable holiday lights trail promoted by TourismOhio, according to Paula Scott, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce CEO.

"We have very prominent placement and a direct link to the chamber web page in the lights trail promotion," she added.

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Judy Bloom-Miracle was a Bluffton school bus driver

Judith A. Bloom-Miracle, 75, of Findlay and formerly of Bluffton died Dec. 6, 2020, at her residence. 

Judy was born Aug. 4, 1945, in Columbus, Ohio, to the late Raymond and Cathryn (Barry) Minnig. On April 27, 1963, she married Richard Bloom and he preceded her in death on Dec. 1, 2010.  She later married Benjamin Miracle on April 20, 2013. and he survives.

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15 minutes with Brother Matthias

Former Bluffton resident and Trappist Monk at Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky

15 minutes with Brother Matthias, (Matt Meyer), brother of Tonya Meyer, director of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center and son of Basil Meyer of Bluffton.

Where did you graduate from high school?
I attended school in the Northeastern Local school district and graduated in 1981. Our family moved to Bluffton in 1984 and my younger brother and sisters attended Bluffton schools.

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Bluffton Anthology now available in downtown stores

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A new book, “Bluffton Anthology – a creek runs through it,” with dozens of short essays about Bluffton, collected by Fred Steiner, is now on sale in several Bluffton  businesses:
• Roots by Strattons
• The Food Store
• The Black Lab
• Bluffton Senior Citizens Center
• Polished

“This collection brings together more than a dozen engaging writers whose own Bluffton experiences deserve retelling,” said Steiner.

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That Christmas feeling

The Black Lab Trading Co., 121 N. Main St., provides two holiday-decorated windows that evoke the Christmas feeling. These photos are part of the Icon's holiday sidewalk window shopping series of Main Street businesses. Two additional photo show the complete windows from Main Street.

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