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.
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.
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.
"America is a Hankish ice cream cone," announces this parade float and an Icon article by the same name from 2013. Icon founder Fred Steiner estimated that this image dates to 1976. America 250 organizers in Bluffton have a July 4, 2026, parade on their calendar. Have you floated any fun ideas for this celebration? PHOTO FEEDBACK ▶︎
