The clean-up phase of the Feb. 28 flood took center stage Tuesday. The village placed dumpsters on Cherry Street, Railroad Street and Riley Street as residents ripped up carpets and all sorts of ruined furniture and personal belongings, placing them in the dumpsters.
So far in 2011 we've experienced 34.3 inches of snowfall. But after a while, who's counting?
Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, released the February weather report. During the second month of the year we had 18.3 inches of snowfall. In January we had 16 inches.
That's the number of bags created in advance and distributed throughout the village as a result of Monday's flood, according to Rick Skilliter, police chief.
The Suters made Bluffton movie history on Monday night: They successfully converted the Shannon Theatre from 35 mm film to digital projection. Until Monday night, every film ever shown in a Bluffton theater, going back to the Carma and Star Theater (the Star showed silent movies), were on film.
"It's the biggest change ever in the film industry," said Pete in an interview with The Icon.