December 2025

FROM FACEBOOK__No roof work today, December 9. Bluffton Public Library is open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.! Join us at 1 p.m. for Holiday Music with the Rainbow Dulcimers, 6 p.m. for Santa's Firetruck with the Bluffton Fire Department, or 6 p.m. for the Bluffton Art Co. program (please register in advance)! Thank you so much for your patience as we continue to update the building and invest in our community!

FROM BLUFFTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FACEBOOK__There's still time to write your letter to Santa! Kids can drop their letters off in the Santa Mailbox located in the alley between Fortman Insurance and Sielschott, Walsh, Kiefer, Regula and Sherer CPAs.

Be sure to include a return address for a special reply from Santa!

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7:00 a.m. on Friday, December 12

MEDIA RELEASE–The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, December 12. The meeting will be held on the third floor of Bluffton Town Hall.

The meeting sponsor is the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. McDonald's will be providing the breakfast.

Program begins at 7:30 a.m. No RSVP is required. Tony Jacomet from Jacomet's Martial Arts will discuss the various types of martial arts and the benefits of martial arts for all ages.

Special worship events are compiled on the Icon Classifieds HERE

MEDIA RELEASE––Christmas for Kids will be held at Trinity Lutheran School, 105 Allen Street, Jenera, on Saturday, December 13 from 12:30-3:00  p.m. This one-day free Christmas VBS will give children ages 3 through 5th grade an opportunity to celebrate and learn about the true meaning of Christmas. 

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63 Bluffton art students participated in 2025 contest

MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Lions Club announced that Lydia Gratz is the winner of its local contest, the first stage of the Lions International Peace Poster Contest. Students in Bluffton Middle School's 7th-grade art classes participated in the contest. The Middle School art teacher is Mrs. Amy Gratz.

From AdaIcon.com Wilson Football Factory featured on Ohio Innovation Trail

As part of America 250 celebrations, the State of Ohio has created an Ohio Innovation Trail to illustrate that "Ohio has produced wave after wave of problem-solvers whose ideas reshape how we move, manufacture, protect, power, feed, and heal – then and now." (america250-ohio.org/ohio-innovation-trail)

Happy Monday, Blufftonites! Here are BlufftonIcon.com's top stories from the week that was, December 1-7. For a chronological look Icon content, visit blufftonicon.com/archive

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Snowy weather blankets 2025 Blaze of Lights

MEDIA RELEASE__Orange Township Trustees will meet on December 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Township meeting hall,  2973 Township Road 28 (at SR 235). Email [email protected] for more information.

David Karl Bower was taken home to see the Lord on Friday morning, December 5, 2025. 

He was born on November 15, 1943, to Ezra and Elizabeth (Bormuth) Bower, who preceded him in death. 

From AdaIcon.com: Registration open for ONU Day of Dance

Saturday, Feb. 7 from 1-5 p.m. at Freed Center for the Performing Arts

Featuring classes taught by ONU dance faculty and guest artists for intermediate/advanced dancers in grades six through 12. Register HERE.

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