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Friday morning chamber meetings resume on Zoom

Featuring Blanchard River Watershed Partnership and West Central Ohio Land Conservancy
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 8, 2020 - 4:31pm

The story was updated at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 9.

It’s September and that means the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meetings are on the calendar.

The first meeting of the new season is Friday morning. It features the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership and West Central Ohio Land Conservancy, according to Paula Scott, CEO of the chamber.

Ken Mauer (wcolc.org) and Lauren Sandhu (blanchardriver.org) are the featured. They will discuss a rescheduled water and land tour.

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Take a Bluffton art walk

The Trumpeter - final photo feature in our summer series
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 7, 2020 - 8:47pm

This is the final installment in this series.
Summer is a great time to explore the art spread across the Bluffton community – especially for viewers unable to visit art galleries elsewhere in Ohio.

As a weekly series, The Icon has featured the art created by John Peter Klassen, a long-time Bluffton College art professor.

For some viewers, this series is familiar. For others, it may be a first-time experience.

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Take a Bluffton summer art walk - final installment

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2020 - 2:19pm

This is the final installment in this series.
Summer is a great time to explore the art spread across the Bluffton community – especially for viewers unable to visit art galleries elsewhere in Ohio.

As a weekly series, The Icon has featured the art created by John Peter Klassen, a long-time Bluffton College art professor.

For some viewers, this series is familiar. For others, it may be a first-time experience.

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Need a place to park your bike on Main Street? No problem

Bike racks in four downtown locations will handle 17 bikes
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 4, 2020 - 3:17pm

As Bluffton becomes a more friendly bicycle village, more incentives become available to encourage bike use here.

The most recent is the creation of 17 bicycle parking spaces to be installed this fall along the Main Street business district.

The bike racks come as a result of a $5,000 grant from the Allen County Health Department’s "Creating Healthy Communities.”

Those 17 parking spaces are planned for:
• Town hall (3 spaces)
• Presbyterian alley (4)
• Edward Jones alley on North Main (5)
• Book ReViews alley (5)

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Ohio Department of Health will begin covid-19 data reporting by school districts

Governor DeWine announced details for Ohio's forthcoming case reporting order for K-12 schools
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 4, 2020 - 6:45am

Governor DeWine announced details for Ohio's forthcoming case reporting order for K-12 schools.

Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8, parents or guardians and school staff should notify their school within 24 hours of receiving a positive test or a clinical diagnosis.

Within 24 hours after receiving that notification, the school should notify other parents and guardians about that case in writing, providing as much information as possible without releasing protected health information.

The school must also notify their local health department within 24 hours. 

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Absentee ballot request forms in the mail

Secretary of State encourages voters choosing to go absentee to send request ASAP
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 3, 2020 - 4:58pm

Earlier this summer, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced every registered Ohio voter would receive an absentee ballot request form in the mail. Those request forms are arriving in mailboxes this week – one week ahead of schedule.

Ohioans who want to vote by absentee ballot must send their request form back to their county board of elections in order to receive an absentee ballot.

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