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It starts with chicken nuggets on April 3, and ends with barbecue pork sandwiches on April 30.

It's all part of the April menu at the Bluffton school cafeterias. To view the April menu click here.

Here's some gloomy stats on the state of health in Allen County

How aware are you of bike and pedestrian rules and laws in Ohio?

The Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) Program of Allen County Public Health recently partners with MOVE Safe Allen County to provide communication education for bike and pedestrian safety.

To assist these groups, the Icon invites viewers to click on the link and take a 10-question quiz.

Here’s a sample quiz question: You’re passing someone riding a bike while driving on a local roadway. What should you do?

The following work will affect traffic within Hancock County. All work is weather permitting.

Interstate 75 near the county Road 95/Bigelow Avenue overpass, Findlay, will be temporarily affected overnight Wednesday, March 28, into the early morning hours of Thursday, March 29, during the installation of a fiber optic line over the travel lanes.

You may have to travel to Iowa to see this plate. The Icon spotted it in early March at the Ohio Northern University agriculture conferance. This guy's obviously an Iowa State fan and is certainly involved in agriculture.

Last of the holiday lights removed in mid-March

Joe Sehlhorst, Bluffton council member and cultural affairs committe representative, announced that Christmas in Bluffton is officially over.

Here's portion of an e-mail message from Sehlhorst concerning the removal of the LED lights on the large evergreen tree in the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn in mid-March.

"Special thanks goes out to all that helped with the removal of the LED lights on the big Evergreen this past Saturday. Jeff Stratton and Dan Snyder organized finding manpower to get this task done.

First three months of 2018 have 14 building permits in the village

A building permit filed with the village by Grob Industries shows that a $10 million new building is going up at Grob this spring.

That permit was the largest of 14 building permits filed in the first three months of 2018.

So far this year,  $11,313,309 in new construction is underway in the village. Of that figure, approximately $1 million is in residential construction.

The building permit list is part of the Monday Bluffton council packet. The packet is attached at the bottom of this story and the list of building permits is also attached.

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