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The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce 2013 membership window stickers will be distributed at Friday's chamber breakfast. Members not attending the breakfast will have their stickers mailed to them.

This year's sticker follows a five-year tradition of changing the background color. These replace the familiar orange stickers of 2012.

 

Following the January tax law changes made by Congress under the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA), the Internal Revenue Service announced today it plans to open the 2013 filing season and begin processing individual income tax returns on Jan. 30.

 

The first week of the new year experienced highs slightly above freezing and lows in mostly in the teens. Here's the report from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Date  Maximum  Minimum Prec.

1          31              14
2          22                5
3          28              12           trace
4          27              16
5          36              17
6          35              26
7          35              21

There will be lane restrictions in effect on Interstate 75 near Bluffton on Tuesday, Jan. 8, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Travel will be restricted to one land just north of State Route 103 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for guard rail repairs.

TBAKER3 - must mean somewhere in Ohio is TBAKER2 and TBAKER1. The Icon spotted this plate recently in an Ohio Northern University parking lot.

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs, will hold a roundtable workshop for one-shop-do-it-all business owners and independent consultants for product lines.

The free workshop is at 8:45 a.m., Friday, Jan. 11, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
The workshop follows the 7:30 a.m. January Bluffton chamber breakfast also held in the town hall.

The workshop will last about one hour.

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