Flood a small town and suddenly everyone wants to see what's happening. The Feb. 28 flood set one-day viewing records for The Icon.
While The Icon has averaged between 500 to 600 viewers per day on Feb. 28 The Icon had 3,472 individual viewers. That topped the previous record when a deer walked into a downtown Bluffton bar.
On Nov. 6, 2010, The Icon had 1,477 viewers watch the deer crash through Luke's Bar and Grill window. We thought that was impressive.
So far in 2011 we've experienced 34.3 inches of snowfall. But after a while, who's counting?
Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, released the February weather report. During the second month of the year we had 18.3 inches of snowfall. In January we had 16 inches.
The was the scene around noon Monday on the Bentley Road overpass. Vehicles were being rerouted by the Ohio State Patrol because the Interstate was closed.
Carol Louise Jordan Edwards, 67 died at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 at her home in Bluffton following a month's illness.
She was born to James T. Sr. and Lenore L. Willauer Jordan on July 3, 1943 in Toledo, Ohio. The youngest of triplets, the Rev. Dr. Henderson L.V. Shinn at Grace Evangelical & Reformed Church, Toledo, baptized her with her brothers into the Christian faith. On May 29, 1966 she wed the Rev. Craig Edwards, who died on June 14, 2009.
That's the number of bags created in advance and distributed throughout the village as a result of Monday's flood, according to Rick Skilliter, police chief.
The Suters made Bluffton movie history on Monday night: They successfully converted the Shannon Theatre from 35 mm film to digital projection. Until Monday night, every film ever shown in a Bluffton theater, going back to the Carma and Star Theater (the Star showed silent movies), were on film.
"It's the biggest change ever in the film industry," said Pete in an interview with The Icon.
