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By Mitchell Gatzke, Icon sports anaylist

As a true football fan I was extremely entertained while watching the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the New York football Giants. However, other than the game itself, the event was quite a let down.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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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