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Apollo Career Center will be offering summer school remedial classes from June 13 through July 1. Students in grades 9-12 are eligible to attend. The registration fee is $120 per class.

Students registering after Friday, June 10, will be charged an additional $10 fee per course.

Bluffton native Rick Emmert (BHS 1968 graduate) sends The Icon this update on several projects involving him.

Theatre Nohgaku, which I founded in 2000, is having its first Asian tour at the end of June and beginning of July.

We think we have a great performance that shows off both the power and beauty of noh theater and our own continually improving abilities as a company-the only theater company doing English noh in complete traditional style.

150th committee

Bluffton's sesquicentennial committee is putting on finishing touches of the June 24-July 2 event. Bev Amstutz chairs the committee, which met last night.

Village Cut & Curl, 212 Cherry St., is expanding its services and now offer manicures.

"We offer regular manicures, hot oil manicures and paraffin dip manicures," Lynda Best told The Icon.

Call 419-358-7593 for a appointment or stop by and sign up for a chance to win a free manicure.

American flags are on the graves of 638 veterans in the Bluffton, Beaverdam and Richland Township cemeteries during the Memorial Day season, according to John Wagner of the Bluffton American Legion Post 382. That count is seven higher than last year.

Bike and walking trails are becoming more and more popular in northwestern Ohio. Area trails range from as short as 4 miles all the way to 76 miles in length. Thanks to the continuing efforts of the Bluffton Bike and Pedestrian Pathway Board, Bluffton may soon join the list of communities boasting these recreational gems.

Background for Bluffton's project

Bluffton's vision for a bike and walking trail is relatively new. The committee's goal is simple, yet ambitious: Encircle Bluffton with a pedestrian and bike pathway.

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