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Vaccines to 80 and older start next week

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 14, 2021 - 1:55pm

In coordination with the state roll out of COVID-19 vaccine, several area health care providers will begin administering vaccine to those age 80 and older starting next week, by appointment only.  

Allen County Public Health will maintain a list on their website and update it as providers are identified in the county. Click here for the website.

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Bluffton's gaggle

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 14, 2021 - 1:34pm

Technically a gaggle of Canada Geese is the term used when the birds are in the air. So, what do we call them when they gaggle, team or skein in the National Quarry? You guess is as good as ours. Here's this winter's familiar flock, gaggling or not, in the quarry.

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Abraham and Anna Locher Lugibihl

Our Swiss connection - part 9
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 14, 2021 - 9:37am

This is the ninth installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.
Note the various spellings of Lugibihl in this story.

Abraham Lugibihl was born Nov. 11, 1838, in Riley Township. He was the sixth of 10 children born to John C. and Anna Marie “Thüler”  (Americanized to Diller) Luginbuhl. The family came from France in 1824 to Holmes County, Ohio, and then to Riley Township in 1837.

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Icon invites updates to Civic Organizations listing

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 13, 2021 - 5:01pm

With a new year the Icon asks persons connected with local organizations to provide updates to their free Civic Organization listing.

Send updates to: [email protected]

We also invite organizations not listed to provide the following:
• Name of organization
• Contact person
• Phone number
• Facebook and or website link

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The late Robert Kreider provides 15 images of Riley Creek from the 1930s

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 13, 2021 - 4:07pm

For more information about "Bluffton Anthology" click here

The late Robert Kreider provided 15 images of Riley Creek that he remembered while growing up in Bluffton in the 1930s. Here are five of those images:

• Told of a tribe of gypsies camping along the creek for a day under a weeping willow tree, fashioning chairs and baskets from the willowy branches.

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2021 is a major local election year in Bluffton

4 council seats, 3 school board seats, 2 township trustee seat on the ballot
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 13, 2021 - 3:34pm

This is a major election year in Bluffton.

Four council seats, three school board seats and two township trustee seats will be on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. Winners of those races will have 4-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2022.

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