All Bluffton Icon News

Bluffton High School boys’ basketball team roared out of the Division III sectional with two impressive wins.
 
6th seed - Bluffton 99
9th seed – Carey 34
 
6th seed – Bluffton 60
3rd seed – Coldwater 59
 
Here’s a summary of this week’s district tournament:
 
Playing at Lima Senior, Thursday, March 3, 6:15 p.m.
2nd seed – Spencerville vs. 5th seed Wayne Trace
 
8 p.m. contest

Here's another in our series of Feb. 29 leap year birthday celebrants.

Seven area restaurants and businesses put their best soups on the table and 160 votes (by diners) later the winners were:
• First place - Luke’s Bar and Grill, ham and potato corn chowder
• Second place - Jeanne’s Kitchen, Michael’s cream of asparagus 
• Third place - Larson’s Barbecue fire-roasted tomato 

The Icon continues its photo series on members of the Bluffton High School string ensemble. Here is violinist, Annalise Nisly, an eighth grader.

Cheryl Sue Freed, 51, of rural Jenera died at 3:38 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, at the James Cancer Center in Columbus following three-year battle with sarcoma cancer.  

She was born May 10, 1964, to Dwight and Norma J. (Weihrauch) Rader, they survive in rural Bluffton.  On Oct. 19, 1991, she married Scott A. Freed and he survives.  Also surviving are their three sons, Corey A.; Jordan A. and Matthew S., all of rural Jenera; brothers, Jeff (Julie) Rader of Westerville; Keith Rader of Middletown and sister, Annette (Nick) Stuckey of Rawson.  

Bluffton Public Library will host an Author Visit with Tom Lambert, author of Living with Earl, on March 10 at 6:30 p.m.

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