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Riverdale stops Bluffton girls 5-0

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 29, 2013 - 9:59pm

Riverdale girls blanked Bluffton 5-0  on Aug. 29.

 

Halftime: R, 1-0 Goals: None. Assists: NA.
Shots on Goal: R, 20-5. Corner Kicks: R, 2-1,Saves: R,Parish (4); B,Barhorst (17)

Bluffton 2-2-0, 1-1-0
 

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A Bluffton icon

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 29, 2013 - 6:48pm

All is safe in Bluffton. Mr. Clossen is at his familiar post ready to greet elementary students to school. (This is the first of a series of photos that we call "Bluffton icons." We call them that because that's exactly what they are.)

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Bluffton's Labor Day weekend tradition - BFR's 5K, Walk and Pump and Run

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 29, 2013 - 6:01pm

BFR Sports and Fitness invites Icon viewers to participate in its Saturday, Aug. 31, Labor Day Weekend 5K or Walk, which featuring a Pump and Run.

Details
• The 5K run/walk (including pump and runners) starts 9:15 a.m.
• The fun run/walk starts at 10 a.m.
• Race day check for the 5K pump and run starts at 7:45 a.m.
• Race day check in for the 5K run and walk sis from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
• Race day check in for fun run starts at 8:30 a.m.

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Events
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County sales tax rates increase on Sept. 1

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 29, 2013 - 6:01pm

Neil Reichenbach of Reichenbach and Steiner, CPAs, reminds Icon viewers that the Ohio sales tax rate will increase by one-quarter percent (.25 percent), on Sept. 1.

His message is to consumers and retailers in the Icon viewership area. To retailers, he said, "You should increase the sales tax that you charge to your customers on all invoices dated on or after Sept. 1 by one-quarter percent. Also, make the appropriate changes in your computer, cash register and manual calculations."

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Business
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Pirate's-eye-view

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 29, 2013 - 4:14pm

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Here's a view of College Avenue you don't see every day. Fifteen seniors on the BHS football team painted the bridge on East College, and this view is from the Bluffton fire department ladder.

See if you can find all the names.

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Sports
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Mary Jane Eikenbary 1923-2013

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 29, 2013 - 4:07pm

 

Mary Jane Pratt Eikenbary, 90, of Bluffton died at 9:57 a.m., Aug. 29, 2013, at the Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. She was born May 23, 1923, in Hardin County to Oren and Nellie Witham Pratt who preceded her in death. On Sept. 1, 1940 she married Paul Eikenbary who died on Oct. 4, 2001.

Mrs. Eikenbary attended the Grace Gospel Church in Ada earlier in her life and later attended the First United Methodist Church in Bluffton.  

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Obituaries
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