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Two area students on Cedarville dean's list

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2020 - 3:35pm

Cedarville University recently released the spring 2020 Dean's Honor List. This recognition required students to maintain a 3.75 GPA for the semester while taking a minimum of 12 credit hours. Local students include: 
• Adam Wannemacher 
• Hannah Yost 

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Are you Bluffton street smart?

Identify the streets and you may win a 14-inch, 1-item Padrone's Pizza
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2020 - 3:11pm

Are you Bluffton street smart?

Here’s a chance to prove it by traveling Bluffton’s street without getting on your bike or car. And, if you are fortunate you could win a 14-inch, 1-item, Padrone’s Pizza.

Below this story, the Icon provides nine photographs of streets in our village.  Each photo is inside the village limits. It is possible that the same street could be pictured more than one time.

All you need to do it to identify each street, fill out the entry form, e-mail your answers to the Icon by 5 p.m., Sunday, June 28, and see how really street smart you are.

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An Icon Opinion:

Joining United Way of Greater Lima is our best alternative
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2020 - 2:49pm

AN ICON OPINION - No, it’s not the end of Bluffton as we know it.

You’ve read that the Bluffton-Beaverdam-Richland Township United Way board decided to join the United Way of Greater Lima.

CLICK HERE for that story.

Before we hear, “How can this happen!” please know that it is not the end of Bluffton as we now know it.

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Bees, butterflies and goldfinches

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2020 - 2:37pm

A goldfinch finds something of interest in Bob and Linda Suter's purple salvia plants on Grove Street. The perennial flowere is known to attracts bees and butterflies and you may now add goldfinches to the list.

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Bluffton joins United Way of Greater Lima

Local UW has struggled to meet its goal in recent years
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2020 - 1:50pm

The Bluffton-Beaverdam-Richland Townhip United Way, perhaps the smallest United Way in Ohio, will join the United Way of Greater Lima this fall, according to Erin Bukholder, the local board's executive director.

CLICK HERE to read the Icon's opinion in favor of this action.

The local United Way has struggled in recent years, failing to meet its annual goal of $26,000. 

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Larry Mathewson was a past president of Bluffton school board

Lifelong Bluffton resident, retired from Lima Ford plant
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 22, 2020 - 2:46pm

Larry L. Mathewson, 88, died June 21, 2020, at Brookdale Senior Living in Bowling Green, Ohio.  Larry was born Oct. 9, 1931, in Ada to the late Dana and Treva (Lewis) Mathewson.  On June 30, 1951 he married Imajean Klass who preceded him in death on Nov. 11, 2010. 

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