Bluffton council okayed 2012 appropriations on Monday, which total approximately $6.2 million. The largest expense is a projected $1.4 million water improvement project that will take place only if village voters approve a one-quarter percent income tax on the spring primary.
If voters say "yes" then the village will proceed with the replacement of water lines on the South Lawn-Grove Street area, Sunset Drive and Geiger Street. The one-quarter income tax would be taken off once the project is paid for.
You can't swim in the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool today, but you can buy a 2012 swimming pass at a reduced rate now until Dec. 31.
Passes purchased in December receive a 10 percent discount (does not apply to a $5 charge for additional children*). The 2012 pool prices follow:
$40 - senior single
$75 - senior couple
$80 - single
$130 - family pass (2 adults and up to 3 children ages 18 in the same household) *Additional passese for children agesa 18 and under can be purchased for $5 each.
Alice Basinger provides some musical explanations to Monday's audience of parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. Monday was the annual elementary Christmas concert in the high school gym. Click here to view the nine videos from the concert.
In June 1958, 18-year-old Pat Carr had just finished her freshman year at Hiram (Ohio) College and set off on a summer road trip foreign to most college students.
That's because the road was a river, the Ohio, where Carr spent nearly four months as a trumpet player aboard one of the river's last moving showboats, the Majestic.
