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Bluffton women rally at Franklin to stay perfect

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 2, 2016 - 5:41pm

January 2, 2016
By: Ryan Schadewald, sports information assistant

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FRANKLIN, Ind. - The Bluffton University women’s basketball team trailed for most of the contest, but stormed back in the final period for a 69-68 victory over the Franklin College Grizzlies on Saturday, Jan. 2.  With the win, Bluffton remains a perfect 11-0 on the season and takes sole possession of first place in the HCAC with a 4-0 mark. Franklin slipped to 7-4 and 3-1 in conference play.

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Bluffton Icon was "clicked" and visited 445,600 times in 2015

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 2, 2016 - 12:49pm

 Q: How many individuals viewed the Bluffton Icon in 2015?
A: Would you believe 138,203? That’s the answer, according to Google Analytics. 
 
The analytic program tracks more statistics that we know what to do with. Needless to say, it reveals lots of significant information.
 
We’d like to share some of our 2015 facts and figures with viewers. For starters, those 138,203 viewers clicked on the Icon almost one-half million times, or an average of 1,220 total visits per day!
 
2015 viewer summary
 

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See you in November

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 1, 2016 - 8:48pm

The lights from the Ream holiday folk art display will turn off for the final time this Christmas season. It will all return next Thanksgiving weekend. The Bluffton chamber provided free maps of Bluffton's holiday lights. The maps were in the red mailbox on the Presbyterian lawn for out-of-town visitors. Over 500 maps were distributed from Thanksgiving to Jan. 1, which reveals the traffic from out of town into Bluffton this holiday season.

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We asked Guy Verhoff, weather observer, for the 2015 highs and lows

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 1, 2016 - 8:38pm

Weather-wise, 2015 was a year to remember this way: temperatures rose to not-so-normal highs in November and December. And, few complaints were aired.
 
Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, offers 2015 weather stats to the Icon. A chart at the bottom of this story shows monthly averages. It also shows averages from 2006.
Here’s some of the 2015 highlights:
• 2015 average temperature: 50.9; the normal average temperature is 50.3
• 2015 high temperature: 91
• 2105 low temperature: -9

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2015 do you really know Bluffton quiz?

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2015 - 5:46pm

Here’s a year-end quiz to see just how much you know about Bluffton.
All of the questions in this quiz are based upon stories posted on the Bluffton Icon in 2015. There are 15 possible points.
 
Scoring
Answer 4 or less: Do you really live here?
Answer 5 or 6: Hey, you are a serious Icon reader
Answer 7 or 8: Wow! You are in the know, congrats
Answer 9: You can create next year’s year-end quiz – probably now
Answer 10 or more: You either looked at the answers, or you are a well-read Bluffton native
 

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A little more about our new year's eve caroling tradition

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2015 - 12:26pm

By Fred Steiner
First posted on the Icon Dec. 30, 2010 - revised for 2015
To best understand our community, it's helpful to appreciate the musical gene of those who carry a Bluffton birthmark.

Growing up in a household bursting of Swiss traditions, this truth became obvious early on in the shaping of my own attitude toward events swirling around me.

A case in point is the David Rothen New Year's caroling folklore. My parents' reference to this event centered on their teen years in the late 1920s.

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