Bluffton Exempted Village Schools will have a two-hour delay on Thursday, Jan. 29. Teachers and administrators will work on the implementation of the new “Common Core Standards” with “Formative Instructional Practices.”
Teachers and administrators will be receiving over 25 hours of training this school year to prepare for this state adopted curriculum.
2014 will be remembered for several things, but the thing most area residents will remember is the “Winter of 2014.”
Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, provided The Icon with the 2014 summary with comparisons back to 2006.
Here’s some of the 2014 weather highlights:
• Snowfall recorded at 59.7 inches was more than 22 inches higher than the yearly normal average of 37.10 inches.
• The 2014 average temperature of 48.1 degrees was below the 50.3 degree yearly average temperature.
Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce members will hear about the centennial of the Dixie Highway in 2015 from Bluffton area resident Scott Little.
The route of the Dixie Highway is Main Street in Bluffton and much of the village’s rich history has been closely connected to this most historic route.
BFR Sports and Fitness will offer indoor sport training clinics this winter. Soccer clinics will be offered in January and February on Friday afternoons. Baseball and Softball clinics will be held in February on Thursday afternoons.
In 2014 the Bluffton Icon experienced visits from over one-quarter million internet viewers, according to Google Analytics. These visitors combined for over 335,000 total visits to the Icon. Nearly 80,000 individual visits were from Ohio viewers.
Several additional statistics for 2014 following, which may be of interest to Icon viewers.
The map of Ohio shows the concentration of views by community. The vast majority of views are from Allen, Hardin, Putnam and Hancock counties.
Allen County Public Health has been awarded $10,600 to support its progress in meeting the requirements of the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), the first and only voluntary national accreditation program for public health departments. Allen County Public Health is one of 10 local health departments from 10 states to receive this funding through the Accreditation Support Initiative (ASI).
