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Email update supplement October 6

Posted by Paula Scott on October 7, 2021 - 4:42am

For our email update readers, the October 7 message is missing our two leading stories:

Chamber meets at Bluffton Airport

https://www.blufftonicon.com/news/2021/10/05/october-chamber-meeting-blu...

October 9 Big Day for Birding

https://www.blufftonicon.com/news/2021/10/05/october-9-big-day-birding

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Initial thoughts on filling an Iconoclast’s shoes

Posted by Paula Scott on October 1, 2021 - 6:01am

Effective October 1, 2021, I am the full-time editor-owner of the Bluffton and Ada Icons. In following founder Fred Steiner, I know that I have big shoes to fill. Fred took a big leap when he created the Bluffton Icon in 2009 and, in 2012, the Ada Icon. My leap from employee to self-employed is much, much smaller. I’m inheriting some 20,000 monthly viewers of Bluffton area news and some 8,500 monthly viewers of Ada area news.

I’m also resting on the shoulders of Icon tech master and interim owner Ryan Lowry, who is still the wizard who keeps the online magic working.

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Card-carrying patron of Bluffton Public Library

By Paula Scott, Bluffton Icon
Posted by Paula Scott on September 27, 2021 - 6:54am

My library card is a tiny sliver on my keychain. It’s a key to lots of free stuff. 

Print books

Audio books

E-books

Magazines

Newspapers

DVDs

Music CDs

Interlibrary loans from other libraries

Research databases

Public computers (and printing for a small fee)

I am a big library fan. I have a vivid memory of being told (at perhaps age five) that I could check out as many books as I wanted to, or at least as many as I could carry. Eureka!

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Tips? Inquiries? Ads?

Posted by Paula Scott on September 27, 2021 - 6:00am

Have story tips, inquiries, or ads for the Bluffton Icon? Our contact information changed this summer:

EMAIL [email protected]

PHONE 567-400-ICON (4266)

ADDRESS PO Box 31, Bluffton, OH 45817

Please update your contact information. Thank you for being a BllufftonIcon.com viewer. 

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POLL RESULTS: When do you read the Bluffton Icon?

Posted by Paula Scott on September 24, 2021 - 1:48pm

The Bluffton Icon is designed to be available whenever and whereever you need it. Our poll results indicate that those needs and wants do vary.

Thanks to all who participated in our poll.

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Final thoughts on...

Journalism in a small town and all the encounters you can't predict
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 6, 2021 - 8:21am

By Fred Steiner
(Photo accompanying this column shows Fred Steiner and Ryan Lowry cutting the Icon’s first anniversary cake in 2010.)

Thoughts on:
• how the Icons came to be,
• journalism in a small town,
• and a memo to Steve Stratton on retirement.

Here’s the thing:

You can earn a living working in your profession in a small, rural community. But, along the way, you can’t predict the encounters that hit like insects on a car window at 70 mph.

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