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Coach Gottschalk ready for first year at helm

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 11, 2015 - 1:26pm

August 11, 2015

HCAC Coaches Poll

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Bluffton University
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There was a time when Methodists kept the Catholic church key in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 11, 2015 - 11:39am

By Fred Steiner

Eariler this year I was asked a couple questions concerning the church key belonging to  St. Mary's Catholic Church, since I grew up across the street from it. I wrote this brief article for the church history and share it with Icon viewers.

My parents were Nelson and Margaret Steiner.

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Iconoclast View
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This was St. Mary's Catholic Church on Lawn

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 11, 2015 - 11:28am

Dick Boehr took this black and white snapshot of the former St. Mary's Catholic Church before it was razed.

The church faced Lawn Avenue. The location of the church is now part of St. Mary's parking lot. This view is of the church's southside. The bell is now in front of the new church building.

The congregation celebrates its 150th anniversary on Aug. 16. This photo was taken in the lat 1960s.

Click to enlarge.

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Historical Bluffton
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Pirates preparing

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 10, 2015 - 8:57pm

It's early August. That means its high school football tune-up time. Here are the Pirates in a morning practice session.

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St. Mary's Catholic concludes 150th year celebration on Sunday

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 10, 2015 - 11:46am

In 1865 the village of Bluffton was four years old.

There was no town hall. There were no Main Street retail buildings.

Bluffton University did not exist, nor did Bluffton schools. There were no railroads here.

A small pox epidemic had ravaged the rural Bluffton settlement from 1861 to 1863. The Civil War was ending. The State of Ohio had existed for only 62 years.

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An Owens family, living in what is now the Lincoln Highway south of Bluffton, had recently converted to Catholicism.

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Worship
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Street and Alley Committee meets Aug. 17

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 10, 2015 - 9:22am

Bluffton council has the following meetings set on Monday. Aug. 17, in the third floor of the town hall:

• Streets and Alleys Committee, 7:30 p.m.
• Council, 8 p.m.
• Public hearing, Marcum-Wenger alley vacation, 8:15 p.m.

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Public Meetings
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