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Durs and Elizabeth Neuenschwander Amstutz

Our Swiss connection - part 6
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 17, 2020 - 8:55am

This is the sixth installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.

Ursus, also called Durs or Dorsey, was born March 8, 1805, to Christian and Katherina (Nussbaumer) Amstutz in Sigriswil Canton Bern, Switzerland.

His wife, Elizabeth, was born July 24, 1808, to Michael and Barbara (Fuhriman) Neuenschwander in Soncoboz, Canton Bern, Switzerland.

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Icon invites churches to submit Christmas eve details for posting

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 16, 2020 - 4:44pm

The Bluffton Icon invites churches in the Icon's viewership area to send information about Christmas eve services.

Send information to: [email protected]. The listing will be posted next week on the church page.

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Katie Hohenbrink is the Padrone's Pizza winner

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 16, 2020 - 4:10pm

Last week the Icon posted this photo from a Bluffton storefront. We asked viewers to identify the store and the viewer with the first correct answer would win a 14-inch, 1-items Padrone's Pizza.

Katie Hohenbrink answered correctly within 30 minutes of posting the photo. Max can be viewed in the window at Polished, 415 N. Main St.

Watch for a new contest coming at any moment.

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Federal funds will cover 100% of airport taxiway rehabilitation

Engineering work on the nearly $1 million project takes place in 2021
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 16, 2020 - 3:50pm

2021 will see completion of a nearly $1 million updgrade at the Bluffton airport, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.

A November airport planning meeting included a review of 2020 and earlier grants and status updates for several future grants. The discussion points of that November meeting were part of the Dec. 14 Bluffton council agenda.

Blackburn told council members that in 2020 the village received a federal grant to upgrade certain airport taxiways. In 2021 engineering for those upgrades will take place.

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Regional news
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Ada-based band releases new album

Mississippi Bones has wise words from the uninformed
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 16, 2020 - 2:47pm

FROM ADA ICON - The Ada-based band Mississippi Bones is releasing a new album titled “Wise Words from the Uninformed,” according to Dusty Donley.

He told the Icon that the album cover and artwork are a spoof of old tabloids like the Weekly World News.

“The record itself comes with a full tabloid magazine,” said Donley. “Each song on the album is an ‘article’ in the magazine.”

This is the sixth full-length album and 15th release by the band since 2010. 

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Bluffton native, now living in France, write mystery novels

Her latest centers around the fictional town of "Shannon" - does it sound familiar?
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 16, 2020 - 1:19pm

Bluffton residents know her as Lucinda Stratton Guthrie. She writes mystery books under the pen name Bluette Matthey.

Today she lives in Béziers in the south of France with her husband and, as she puts it, two demanding cats. (As an additional Bluffton connection, her brother is Rodney Stratton.)

The former Blufftonite and BHS grad says she grew up reading mysteries and being frightened to death as a child watching Alfred Hitchcock on Friday nights. The result: “Two Murders Too Many,” Bluette’s latest mystery. 

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