All Bluffton Icon News

  • /

Here’s a year-end quiz to see just how much you know about Bluffton.
All of the questions in this quiz are based upon stories posted on the Bluffton Icon in 2015. There are 15 possible points.
 
Scoring
Answer 4 or less: Do you really live here?
Answer 5 or 6: Hey, you are a serious Icon reader
Answer 7 or 8: Wow! You are in the know, congrats
Answer 9: You can create next year’s year-end quiz – probably now
Answer 10 or more: You either looked at the answers, or you are a well-read Bluffton native
 

  • /

By Fred Steiner
First posted on the Icon Dec. 30, 2010 - revised for 2015
To best understand our community, it's helpful to appreciate the musical gene of those who carry a Bluffton birthmark.

Growing up in a household bursting of Swiss traditions, this truth became obvious early on in the shaping of my own attitude toward events swirling around me.

A case in point is the David Rothen New Year's caroling folklore. My parents' reference to this event centered on their teen years in the late 1920s.

  • /

Here's something for new year's eve. It's Bluffton's oldest annual tradition.

Click here for an Iconoclast View of this tradition.

Traditional new year's caroling/serenading of the two David Rothen hymns of pre-1840s will again be sung on Dec. 31, 2015, led by the Swiss Historical Society. 

  • /

Jeff Kantner of Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, announces the store's January bargains of the month.

These include:
• Your choice, either 20-pound black oil sunflower bird seed,
   or 40-pound wild bird food, $9.99

• 2-gallon, 6-ounce, palastic gas can, $7.99

• Your choice, either 16-pack AA or AAA alkaline batteries,
   or 4-pack 9 volt alkaline batteries and 8-pack C or D alkaline batteries, $10.99

• Your choice, either 2-pack, 7.5 watts, or 13 watts LED bulbs, $5.99

  • /

Jeanne's Kitchen, 112 Vine St., Bluffton, offers a new year's eve buffet. Reservations are strongly recommended at 419-234-8650.

~Buffet Menu~
Beef Wellington, Chicken Picatta, Fresh Herb Salmon, Seasoned Pork Loin, Fingerling Potatoes, Fresh Vegetable Salad, Pasta with Shrimp, & Mixed Vegetable Medley. 

A wide assortment of appetizers and a large variety of homemade desserts will also be served!

Choose from two seatings: 4:30-6 p.m. and 6-8 p.m.

Please call Jeanne at 419-234-8650

  • /

Mustard Seed Cafe, 562 N. Main St., Bluffton, has a new year's eve special dinner. RSVPS are suggested at 567-226-1120:

Mustard Seed is offering the following set five course menu from 5 p.m.-10 p.m.

Pages