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Icon's Super Bowl thoughts: Pats or G-men?

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2012 - 4:49pm

By Mitchell Gatzke, Bluffton University student
Special sports columnist to The Icon
The Super Bowl this Sunday is sure to be nothing less than spectacular, as it is every year. The question everyone seems to have is who is going to ultimately win the championship?

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Hot dang! Now there's oatmeal served on Main Street

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 31, 2012 - 6:58am

By Fred Steiner
Icon restaurant viewer

As I see it there are two kinds of people in the world: 1 - Oatmeal lovers, 2 - The rest of the thundering herd.

As a member of group number one, it was with great pleasure that I learned Common Grounds is now serving the legendary grain.This means that after a very long hiatus you may once again eat breakfast in a downtown eatery in 45817.

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Finding some beauty in a dreary Ohio January

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 29, 2012 - 6:14pm

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner
Ohio is experiencing yet another random January. Snow one day, rain the next; 10 degrees one day, 50 the next. And so it goes. Typical Ohio weather.

Every year, people comment on how strange this winter is and the usual contention is that it is all the result of global warming - which is no doubt true. Those of us who are at least 40 years old will swear that we had a LOT more snow in our childhoods than our children have ever seen.

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Check out The Icon's seven-day story archive

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2012 - 1:06pm

The Icon continues to evolve. We've said before that there is no manual written on how to create a free small-town online news source like The Icon.

Lots of the things we do are trial and error. Or, trial and success. Many of the ideas we try are viewer generated.

Here's the most recent example:
Now it's easier to find recently posted stories on The Icon thanks to our latest addition to the home page.

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Bring on the Girl Scout cookies...please

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 22, 2012 - 3:23pm

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Somewhere in our attic is a dark green Girl Scout sash, but since it belongs to daughter number 1, it's been packed away carefully in her recently reorganized "corner" and I've been ordered NOT to mess it up.

But a quick search through my husband's box of family "heirlooms", I located an old green Girl Scout dress that belonged either to his sister or mom. The label reads "Girl Scouts Trademark Official Uniform".

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Kodak teeters on the brink - just negative thoughts

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 17, 2012 - 6:32pm

By Fred Steiner

The Wall Street Journal headline read: "Kodak Teeters on the Brink." Reading this, my mind did a long, fast reverse. It stopped somewhere in 1970, inside the Bowling Green State University journalism dark room.

There I heard Jim Gordon, our photo professor, tell our Photojournalism 201 class, "There will always be film." Professor Gordon wouldn't lie. He may have even suggested we buy Kodak stock, but I'm not certain about that.

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