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Fireworks tonight at 10:15 p.m.

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2011 - 4:33pm

Bluffton's sesquicentennial will start off with a blast. A free fireworks display is planned at 10:15 p.m. tonight (Friday, June 24). The fireworks are part of the Relay of Life event at the Bluffton University football stadium.

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Why farm?

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2011 - 6:59am

No question mark needed. This plate asks one of the more interesting questions of life. The Icon spotted it on Main Street. It is a Hancock County plate.

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Bluffton artifacts offered at the Boy Scout Indian Village's trading post

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2011 - 6:53am

Old bricks from Bluffton's Main Street will be available as souvenir items during Bluffton's sesquicentennial celebration at the Boy Scout Indian Village's Trading Post.

The old Main Street was removed for the new Streetscape in 2009. Many of the bricks are embossed with "Convict Made 1927 Ohio State Brick Plant."

The bricks were laid on the street alongside the Western Ohio Railway electric interurban streetcar line, which ran on Main Street from 1906 to 1932.

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The party we've waited 150 for begins on Friday!

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2011 - 5:45pm

Seven score and 10 years ago Allen County's Shannon, Ohio, became Bluffton, Ohio. Friday, June 24, the celebration we've waited 150 years for begins.

After over three years in the planning stage, Bev Amstutz, chair of the Bluffton cultural affairs committee, breathes a sigh of relief, seeing the events she spearheaded come to realization.

Mayor Fred Rodabaugh appointed Amstutz as chair of the sesquicentennial planning committee for good reason. Her father, the late Eugene Benroth, was known as "Mr. Bluffton" in his time.

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J. Denny Weaver - oops - Beaver celebrates first birthday

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2011 - 5:12pm
J. Denny Beaver

On the eve of Bluffton's 150th anniversary celebration a relatively newcomer to town celebrates his first birthday today. J. Denny Beaver, the Bluffton University sports mascot, is one year old today (June 23, 2011).

Icon viewers are invited to send J. Denny a birthday greeting on his Facebook page. You may do so by clicking here.

For a one-year-old, J. Denny has had a pretty exciting year.

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Bluffton Boy Scouts set up Indian village and trading post

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2011 - 4:44am

From left: Austen "Feared Bear" Herron, Jack "Big Foot" Burrell, Misha "River Trout" Groman and Christian "Red Hawk" Groman.

For the past eight months, the Bluffton Boy Scouts have been actively preparing for the Sesquicentennial Indian Village and Trading Post at the Buckeye.

Under the direction of Assistant Scoutmaster and American Indian historian Gary "Book Reader" Wetherill, 20 scouts have been making authentic costumes, typical of the Indian tribes of this area of the late 1700's to early / mid-1800s.

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