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Here are the poll results from last week's Icon poll. This week's poll concerns you plans for handing out trick-or-treats. Click here to take this week's poll.

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According to the Ohio Department of Health the number of new COVID-19 cases per capita for Allen County is 248. This number represents the number of new cases per 100,000 people in Allen County over the past 14 days.

Local public health officials are noting a drastic increase in the number of new daily reported cases:

There have been 392 newly reported cases to date in this month, and 33 hospitalizations 

If this pace continues, October will record the most cases and hospitalizations in a month since the start of the pandemic

Work underway today for creation of 17 bike parking spaces on Main Street

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You noticed some serious concrete work underway in various locations along Main Street today.

Specifically –
• Three stamped concrete pads for downtown bike racks are being poured by Patriot Concrete.

• Two ADA ramps are being added at the Lake Street intersection along North Main Street by Jim’s Excavating, Ft. Jennings.

The Village Public Works Department excavated and prepared all sites for concrete.  

As Bluffton becomes a more friendly bicycle village, more incentives become available to encourage bike use here.

Sponsored by AHEAD - event celebrates 100 years of women's right to vote

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A women’s ride to vote rally takes place in Bluffton on Saturday, Oct. 17, sponsored by Allen and Hardin for Election Action and Democracy (AHEAD).

The rally celebrates 100 years of women’s right to vote and features several speakers, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick. The event takes place at 216 W. Elm St., Bluffton, from 10 a.m. to noon. Elm Street will be closed from Lawn to Spring during the rally.

Volunteers invited to help set up Ream display in early November

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“You can’t stop Christmas from coming.”

That’s this year’s appropriate theme for Bluffton covid-19 readjusted  Blaze of Lights.  You can thank the Grinch for the theme and you can watch for more pre-season holiday events in the plans from the chamber.

Nov. 6-7 – Bluffton downtown holiday open house. In addition, The Dough Hook and Shirley’s will hold customer appreciation days on Nov. 7.

Monday evenings beginning Oct. 26 in Bluffton

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Your feelings are normal and natural. 

The problem is that we have been socialized to believe that these feelings are abnormal and unnatural, says Chris Schilling of Bluffton.

Schilling is an ordained minister, hospital and Air Force Reserve chaplain, and an Advanced Grief Recovery Method (GRM) specialist.

Later this month, he will lead a secular educational, evidence-based program that helps persons with unresolved grief in their lives.

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