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Bluffton police posted a flood warning announcement on Nixle.  Here is the message:

Advisory: The NWS has issued a flash flood watch. Those along the Riley Creek should consider necessary precautions and actions.

The NWS has issued a flash flood watch for our area. The heaviest rain will likely be late tonight and overnight, making it difficult to determine  and/orestimate potential impacts.  

We encourage those located near and along the Riley Creek to consider moving items to higher ground to avoid a sudden rush over night during the storm. 

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NOTE to Bluffton Icon viewers: Bluffton and Ada Icons, internet sites in the same family, offer a post-Christmas switch.

The Bluffton Icon's "2015 Bluffton Christmas Lights Winners," is now also featured on the Ada Icon home page in the interest of Ada viewers.

Likewise, Ada Icon's "Ada Christmas Scenes of 2015," is featured on Bluffton Icon. Please enjoy views of Ada at Christmas, while Ada viewers enjoy views of Bluffton at Christmas.

We’ve collected holiday photos from the Icon and from two Ada Facebooks.

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Why bundle up and brave the cold winter winds - we're kidding - just to look at Bluffton's outdoor Christmas lights?

The Icon offers this armchair view of the residential lighting winners and the downtown business window winners.

Judges from the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce selected the residential winners and each received chamber gift certificates.

Downtown businesses voted to the three window winners. 

An extra to this scrapbook of photos is Beverly Amstutz's 2015 Christmas card cover "A Christmas from the Past."

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Scattered damaging wind gusts of 50-60 mph 
An AEP Weather Alert: Unseasonably warm, moist air will arrive in AEP’s East Utilities today ahead of an advancing cold front.

This will most likely result in a broken line of strong-severe thunderstorms crossing the utilities this evening into tonight. The winds aloft will be exceptionally strong…making it probable that some of the thunderstorms will mix down damaging wind gusts.

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The Bluffton Hospital Gift Shop is now accepting credit cards. The Gift Shop is located inside the new Emergency Department entrance of the hospital. Gift Shop hours are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
 
The Gift Shop offers gift items for every occasion, including baby gifts, as well as jewelry, greeting cards and Dietsch’s candy. All proceeds benefit Bluffton Hospital. 

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Kaity King, Bluffton High School senior, is the December BHS student of the month. The daughter of Amy King and Alan King, Kaity carries a 3.874 grade point average.

Kaity is a member of the FCCLA (Family, Career, & Community Leading America) and is a cheerleader at Bluffton High School. She also cheers for All Star Cheerleading in Lima.

In her spare time she likes to quilt, help people, cheer and tumble.

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