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Bluffton chamber newsletter now available to Icon viewers

This week's Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce e-mailed newsletter is now available to Icon viewers.

The newsletter tells about the Sept. 22 business showcase, provide information about this year's Blaze of Lights, downtown snowflake sponsorship, September chamber breakfast details and has a September calendar of chamber-related events.

The chamber has 143 member. Membership information is avilable at the chamber's website: www.blufftonchamber.com.

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IRS announces interest rates will decrease

The Internal Revenue Service today announced that interest rates will decrease for the calendar quarter beginning Oct. 1, 2011. The rates will be:

. Three (3) percent for overpayments [two (2) percent in the case of a corporation];
. Three (3) percent for underpayments;
. Five (5) percent for large corporate underpayments; and
. Zero and one-half (0.5) percent for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000.

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Steiner & Granger: Holding steady in the face of market volatility

Provided by Steiner & Granger
Insurance and Financial Services

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Anyone who has even a passing interest in financial news and the investment world knows that we are in a period of unusual events and uncertainty. Although some recent developments are unprecedented, and the headlines can be alarming, history counsels against overreacting. It's important to approach the tumult in the financial markets with an eye toward the practical and not the emotional.

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Drive Time Driving Instruction offers up to $25 off on September classes

Drive Time Driving Instruction will offer a new series of classes in early September. The Bluffton-based driver instruction school has a special offer of up to $25 off for persons registering for September classes.

Classes in Blufton begin Sept. 11. The next month of classes begin Oct. 2. Sunday classes are held 1:30-5:45 p.m.; weekday classes are 5-9:15 p.m.

Click here for details.

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First National Bank ranks among top 200 community banks in the U.S.

US Banker (also known as American Banker) magazine has listed Pandora Bancshares, Inc., the Pandora-based single-bank holding company of First National Bank of Pandora among the Top 200 community banks and thrifts in the United States with less than $2 billion of assets at Dec. 31, 2010.

Pandora ranked 186th nationally. First National Bank of Pandora is one of just 17 Ohio banks that made the annual Top 200 list published in the magazine's June 2011 edition.

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Stratton Auto extends summer air condition special through Aug. 31

Stratton Auto Sales and Main Street Rentals, 220 N. Main St., Bluffton, has extended its summer air conditioning special offer through Aug. 31.

The special offer provides for a recharge of your vehicle's air conditioning, which includes evacuate and recharge the system for only $39.95. Freon is extra.

An Icon coupon to obtain this special price is an attachment at the bottom of this story. It is printer-friendly.

Stratton Auto's phone number is 419-358-1110.

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