MEDIA RELEASE__Candidates for Bluffton University’s Student Senate president will participate in a Presidential Debate Forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Candidates will discuss campus issues, respond to questions and share their leadership visions for the student body.
On February 2 many Ada and Bluffton community members reached out to the Icon with information and photographs relating to the fire at Viva Maria restaurant. Thank you so very much for supporting local news in this way. Please email [email protected], call 567-400-4266 (leave a messsage if we don't answer) or tag @blufftonicon on Facebook to share all kinds of news.
TOLEDO__The visiting Bluffton High School boys basketball team utilized a huge second period to defeat non-conference foe Toledo Woodward 46-39 on Tuesday, February 3.
The game was tied 11-11 after the opening period. But a 17-1 Pirate second quarter blitzed the Polar Bears and gave Bluffton a 28-12 lead at halftime.
Woodward bounced back behind a 14-7 third period to edge within 35-26 heading into the fourth period.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton, your help is needed! This summer, our village has the opportunity to experience a hot new entertainment experience. Bluffton's America 250 committee has scheduled a drone light show in June following the Lions Club Festival of Wheels.
The show consists of 100 computer-synchronized areodrones (UAVs) creating colorful light formations and 3D pictures in the sky. It’s a nighttime color spectacle in the sky, much like fireworks. Drone light shows usually occur in bigger cities and can attract quite large crowds. It is rare that villages our size host events such as this. Wouldn’t it be great if we could enter the next 250 years of American independence as a host for this new-age attraction? Gene Benroth, known as Mr. Bluffton and one of the ardent civic promoters of all things Bluffton, was quoted once saying, “If we’re doing it, we might as well do it BIG.”
The following nine land transfers took place in the Bluffton Exempted Village School District for the month of January 2026 as reported on the websites of Allen County Auditor Rachael S. Gilroy and Hancock County Auditor Charity A. Rauschenberg.
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3 parcels on DAVES WAY and STATE RT 103 - 1/15/2026 - $155,000 – Commercial Vacant Land - From C T E ASHLAND INC to SKRJ LLC
