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The first week of the new year experienced highs slightly above freezing and lows in mostly in the teens. Here's the report from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Date  Maximum  Minimum Prec.

1          31              14
2          22                5
3          28              12           trace
4          27              16
5          36              17
6          35              26
7          35              21

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Stratton Auto Sales and Main Street Rentals, North Main Street, Bluffton, reminds Icon viewers that whatever you're in the market for, they can service your needs:

• new pre-owned car, truck, van, SUV or crossover
• new tires, auto repairs, or preventative maintenance
• car and van rentals

Contact Amie at 419-358-1900 for details, or visit the Lima location at 1710 N. West St., Lima.

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There will be lane restrictions in effect on Interstate 75 near Bluffton on Tuesday, Jan. 8, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Travel will be restricted to one land just north of State Route 103 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for guard rail repairs.

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The Cotton Patch Gospel, a one-man musical by Phillip Kaufmann, will be presented at 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, at First Mennonite Church. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day event is sponsored by the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.

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TBAKER3 - must mean somewhere in Ohio is TBAKER2 and TBAKER1. The Icon spotted this plate recently in an Ohio Northern University parking lot.

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Here's an English Lutheran Church confirmation class taken in the mid-1950s. Lutheran viewers can help us identify everyone in the photo and perhaps place a year on it. We can identify two of the youth, from left, Craig Edwards, Irene (Basinger) Althaus,_______ Schmidt and unidentified. Can a viewer help us and possibly name the minister? Leland Gerber took this photo.

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