Although Mark Twain is believed to state that everyone complaints about the weather, but no one does anything about it, (**see footnote) Guy Verhoff from the official weather station at Pandora, does the next best thing.
He records it.
And, here’s what he found about our weather in 2018:
It's not to early to start thinking about the 2019 Bluffton Arts and Crafts Show. The 2019 event is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 11. The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce announces booth fees at a reduced rate, if you register early, says Paula Scott, chabmer CEO.
Here are the details:
GUIDELINES:
Please review the following updated guidelines for the 2019 festival. They are also available at explorebluffton.com/arts-crafts-festival.
On the 12th day of Bluffton Christmas, the Bluffton Icon printed photos of the holiday window winners on Main Street and in Bluffton front lawns.
We also offered some photos of new traditions starting this year. Including this tree ornament-greeting from Jamie Nygaard, which carries a special Bluffton touch.
All photos by Jamie Nygaard
It's a long-standing Bluffton High School Christmas concert tradition. Members of the high school choir, in pajamas, sing "Twas the night before Christmas." With them are invited young family members or friends of the singers.
This tradition was started by Earl Lehman in the 1950s and continues today. Here are photos from this year's holiday concert in the middle school cafetorium.
The following article is submitted by Tanya Augsburger, with contributions from the Bluffton powerlifting team, their parents, and former Bluffton powerlifting team coach, Kelly Prichard.
If you've ever wanted to dig into the village files to find a certain ordinance, you'd be in for a long search. Ordinances are all over the place.
But, that will change sometime in 2019. The village has contracted with American Legal Publishing Corp., of Cincinnati to resolve the problem.
Jesse Blackburn, village administrator, shared the first draft of an estimated 750-page document titled "Village of Bluffton, Ohio, Code of Ordinances." We're guessing at the 750 pages, based on 500 sheets of paper pile. It could be 1,000 pages.
