Gift certificate drawings, merchandise discounts, free gifts and free copies of a new children’s book take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4, in the annual Downtown Bluffton Christmas Open House.
Ten businesses are part of a mailing shopper – the shopper is attached at the bottom of this story. Each of those businesses has special discounts.
For more details go to: Bluffton Downtown Merchants on Facebook.
It might as well be November when Bluffton residents are usually in the midst of serious leaf raking. Not so, this year. The leaves seem to want to hang around longer than usual.
Meanwhile the village crew is set up to take leaves from Bluffton curbs. Here's the the rules from the village:
• Leaf piles will not be picked up if they contain any grass, stickets, yard waste or trash.
• Please rake leaves to the curb in long, narrow rows.
• Village crews will pick up leaves once each week.
By Mitch Kingsley - special to the Icon
In a heart-stopping District Final boys' soccer game at Kalida, the Bluffton Pirates finally had their way with the Kalida Wildcats. The game went to sudden death shootout even, and Bluffton final got the result, 4-3 on Simon Derstine's shot.
Bluffton’s Braden Conrad got the Pirates on the board assisted by John Shriner at the 14 minute in the game. Kalida did not answer back until they evened it (#18) at the 68 min.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is proposing to repair concrete pavements along ramp sections at the Interstate 75 interchange with state Route 696 and at the state Route 696 interchange with U.S. 30 in Allen County near the Village of Beaverdam.
Some concrete pavement repair work will take place along state Route 696 near the Interstate 75 interchange with state Route 696. Weekend closures of these ramps are expected and vehicle traffic will be detoured during closures. State Route 696 will remain open to traffic as the repairs to concrete pavement are being completed.
