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No rain in sight and then suddenly...

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 23, 2014 - 9:20am

No rain in sight and suddenly that changed last night. Here's the July daily weather summary from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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National Night Out comes to Bluffton Aug. 5 - and it looks like lots of fun

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 22, 2014 - 5:32pm

National Night Out is coming to Bluffton.

Icon viewers are invited to join forces with communities nationwide for the 31st annual National Night Out (NNO) crime and drug prevention event. Bluffton observes the event on Tuesday, Aug. 5.

Sergeant Matt Oglesbee of the Bluffton Police Department is the local coordinator.

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United Way feature agency of the week: Bluffton Community Preschool

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 21, 2014 - 9:22am

 

This is part of a series of stories featuring local organizations that received Bluffton, Beaverdam, United Way funding.

Where would Bluffton Community Preschool be without the United Way?

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Area wheat harvest: "Good quality wheat and above average yield"

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 17, 2014 - 5:40pm

“Good quality wheat and an above average yield.”

That’s one way to describe the 2014 wheat harvest in the Icon viewership area.
Larry Kaiser, manager Ada grain branch of Heritage Cooperative, provide the Icon with some of this year’s harvest figures.

Kaiser reports yields ranging from 65 to 90 bushels per acre, with an average of about 80 bushels per acre. Moisture content average was 15.2 percent mostly (13.5 percent is dry).
The first wheat arrived at the Ada elevator on July 5 and the harvest should be completed by the end of this week.

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The major weather number: 85

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 15, 2014 - 8:57am

The magic number: 85. For the past three days, 85 was the high temperature reading in the area, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Here are the daily weather summaries for the past seven days.

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Pedestrian and bike path groundbreaking launches $123,000 project from CL Road to Comfort Inn

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 14, 2014 - 5:54pm

Once upon a time, a railroad hauled passengers and freight just north of the National Quarry.

The railroad, now abandoned, has a second life – this time as a walking path and bike path.

MORE PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY.

Groundbreaking occurred July 14, for the .6-mile, 8-foot wide asphalt pathway along the abandoned Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad, that will link the heart of the village to the high-traffic business district near the I-75 interchange.

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