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Sensus will replace 1,450 Bluffton water meters

Meters installed last summer cost the village $400,000
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 4:39pm

Remember last summer when village employees replaced the water meter in your lawn?

The project involved 1,450 meters, each containing a radio transmitter that sends water usage by household to the village for monthly billing purposes. That project took all summer to complete.

This fall, after discovering some glitches in about 277 of the radio transmitters, Sensus, the company serving the contract announced that it will replace all 1,450 radio devises in the meters at no cost to the village, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.

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Montez Archer named to the D3football.com Team of the Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 4:13pm

 Bluffton University freshman Montez Archer Jr. (Detroit, Mich./Martin Luther King) followed up his Heartland Conference Player of the Week by being named to the D3football.com Team of the Week.

Archer had a career day in just his second collegiate football game on Saturday. The starting cornerback was one of six players from the Heartland Conference to be honored nationally this week. He helped lead the Beavers to a 49-14 road thumping of Manchester University on Saturday, March 6, 2021.

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Plowing through outer space

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 4:07pm

Bluffton High School sophomore art student Riley Pearson designed this proposed snowplow illustration in an Ohio Department of Transportation snowplow contest and is the state winner in the high school category. Riley created the drawing, entered it, and it made its way through judging. In the end, it won by the number of online votes it received. The Icon will feature the artist tomorrow in a separate story.

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Bluffton voters will cast ballots at The Centre in May

Board of election decided to move the polling location from the elementary building
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 2:42pm

Registered voters in the village of Bluffton will vote at The Centre, 601 N. Main St., during the May 4 Ohio primary election.

Voters were notified this week that the polling location will move from the Bluffton elementary school, where it was located for several decades, to The Centre.

According to Kathy Meyer, director of the Allen County board of elections, voters must receive a notification of a polling location move 90 days prior to an election, thus the yellow post card sent through the U.S. Postal Service announcing the location change.

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So, you think you know Bluffton? The answer

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 6:07am

So, you think you know Bluffton? It's part of the sign on Twisted Whisk Cafe.

 

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Just a little buttercup

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 9, 2021 - 4:45pm

It's just a little buttercup, but it's the first one blooming in the yard. Bluffton residents are watching their own yards for those early tulips and other early spring blooms. The unseasonably warm temperatures this week have caused several growth spurns of spring blooms.

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