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Flash Flood Watch in effect from 2 p.m. today through Saturday afternoon.

The National Weather Service in northern Indiana has issued a Flash Flood Watch for a portion of northwest Ohio, including Allen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding Putnam and Van Wert.

Showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon and continue through Saturday afternoon.

Story and photo by Amy Eddings
From the Ada Icon

The stereotype of country living is that everyone knows everyone else’s business. That didn’t hold true for neighbors of a new pig barn being built in Hancock County, less than a quarter mile from Hardin County resident Liz Vogt.

“I walk their creek,” she said of the Daft family farm. “I saw that [crews] were digging. I thought I’d go up and see what they were doing. I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if they were building a new barn."

Two-Year Project Aims to Get Community Input on McComb’s Future

On July 4, McComb Region Heart & Soul  formally kicks off a project that aims to involve the community in planning for McComb’s future, Project Coordinator Joe Wasson announced.

Bluffton was be a one-day biker's paradise on Sunday (June 21).

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Visitors to town were the 2,000+ participants in the 27th Annual Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA).

Bikers started the tour in Van Wert on Sunday and made a 50-mile trip to Bluffton arriving between 9:30 a.m. 2 p.m. Earlier in the week chances of thundershowers were 60 percent,  which sent local planners to prepare an indoors "Plan B" for the guests.

The rains never came and Sunday was an enjoyable sunny day.

GOBA campground in Bluffton, 6 21 15

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio  
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.
 

Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.

There will be more fathers in Bluffton this Father's Day than ever before.

Most of the fathers will arrive on bicycles.

GOBA - the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure - arrives in Bluffton on Sunday, June 21 (Father's Day). Over 2,000 bikers will tool through town from Van Wert via Columbus Grove Road to Grove Street, then Jackson, then College Avenue...on to the GOBAville campgrounds on the Bluffton University practice fields at Rosenberger and Elm.

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