The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) District 1 will hold two application workshop events in Lima to assist job seekers in applying for the organization’s open positions.
Jamie Nygaard captures several spring scenes in Bluffton - these are a few days old. As we know, spring blooms change continually. Watch the Icon for more spring views of Bluffton in the coming week
Two Bluffton High School girls and two boys will represent the school at their respective Buckeye Girls State and Buckeye Boys State events this summer. Each student is a junior at BHS.
Local sponsors are the Bluffton American Legion Post 382 and the Bluffton Lions Club.
Attending Girls State are Annalise Nisly and Raina Runk. Girls State is held at University of Mount Union, Alliance, from June 16 to 22.
St. Mary’s Catholic Christian Preschool, which will open in early September, has announced its staff.
Katie Hohenbrink will serve as director and head teacher. Amanda Stechschulte will serve as teacher’s assistant.
Hohenbrink holds a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and previously directed a preschool at St. Augustine in Napoleon. She and her husband, Keith, are parents of four children of their own, two boys and two girls.
Yesterday's featured bird was a nest of Canada geese. Today we go indoors to the Mennonite Memorial Home lobby. There we find these attractive little orange-beaked finches. The problem is that they never sit still enough to pose.
By Cort Reynolds
COLUMBUS GROVE - Visiting Bluffton stayed alone atop the league softball standings by shutting out Columbus Grove 10-0 in a Northwest Conference mismatch Monday evening.
The Lady Pirates improved to 15-1 overall and 6-0 in the NWC with their 14th consecutive win. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs fell to 4-6 and 1-4 in the NWC with the defeat.
Pirate hurler Libby Schaadt improved her record to 13 -1 with a six-inning, complete-game shutout. She allowed just three hits, struck out 10 Bulldogs and walked four.
