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What I really learned on my summer vacation: goat-milking and cheese-making

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 22, 2011 - 6:34pm

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Okay, I'll admit the first 2/3 of my vacation wasn't intended to be educational although I did learn a few things while relaxing on Tybee.

Helpful things...or at least helpful for the next time I'm near a beach.

I now know that that the sting of a jellyfish does not always cause an adverse reaction on humans, and, by watching a few very young experts, I learned how to pick them up and fling them to the beach.

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Keep this one quiet, but there's a significant retirement party Friday afternoon at Family Dollar

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 21, 2011 - 5:14am

Imagine this: As the Bluffton sesquicentennial launches, one Main Street retirement signals the end of that family's 125-year involvement on Main Street. Okay, in this case it's Cherry Street, but who's looking.

Is it three or four generations? We'll report back to you soon.

We aren't naming any names, but an open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Friday, June 24, at Family Dollar will reveal all you need to know.

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What I did on my summer vacation

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 13, 2011 - 6:24pm

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Upon returning to Bluffton after spending over one week on Tybee Island, Georgia, we file this report. Click here for more columns by MPS.

On my summer vacation, I...

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Runners, take your marks....

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 3, 2011 - 11:10am

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

For other columns by MPS click here.

In 1974 - that's 37 years ago for those of you trying to do the math - I went to the OHSAA state track meet in Columbus. Not to run. My own obsession with running didn't start until two years later.

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One year of The Icon You Tube channel - over 15,000 views later

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 1, 2011 - 6:43pm

Bluffton, Ohio, goes to the movies.

Memorial Day 2011 marked the first anniversary of The Bluffton Icon YouTube video channel. Our first-ever video was of the 2010 Memorial Day Parade. Since then The Icon has posted nearly 100 videos.

To view the latest video - middle school out for the summer - click here.

To view elementary out for the summer click here.

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On hailstones, tornadoes, stalled traffic and full bladders

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 28, 2011 - 6:41pm

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner
It's one thing to be sitting in your house, listening to hailstones hit the roof. It's quite another thing to be driving in a car when ping-pong sized hailstones begin smacking the car. It's loud. Distracting. Frightening.

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