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Like the headline states: "Everything"...yes, everything, middle school parents and students need to know about the start of the 2012-13 school year is on The Icon.
Things get pretty serious by Aug. 15-16. That's when class fees and due and schedules are released.
The attachment at the bottom of this story provides:
1 - Class supply lists
2 - Class fee and class schedule pickup dates
3 - Lunch price details
4 - Emergency medical forms
5 - School portrait info

Kayla Brooks, a Bluffton High School freshman, rehearses with the BHS flag corp. Band camp started this week. Click here for a flag corp video.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors met Thursday at the OHSAA Office for its August meeting, which marked the first board meeting of the 2012-13 school year. The following are highlights from the meeting. The complete set of meeting minutes will be posted at a later date at OHSAA.org.

Pauline M. Lutz Hirschler, 100, died at 12:42 p.m., Aug, 2, 2012 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

Note: The Icon printed this letter exactly as it was received.
Dear Icon:
A question in our Latin class (long ago!) was, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", or, if I have it right, "Who guards the guardians themselves?". The media have freedom of the press, but the constitutional guarantee is supposed to be for all citizens, not just a special class. How can we be protected from editors who distort things themselves?

Brion and Julie Rhodes took a birthday hot air balloon ride on Aug. 1. With Rick Cusick, Lima, as pilot, they took off from the Maple Crest front lawn and cruised Bluffton at about 1,000 feet. Watch the video.

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