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Technically a gaggle of Canada Geese is the term used when the birds are in the air. So, what do we call them when they gaggle, team or skein in the National Quarry? You guess is as good as ours. Here's this winter's familiar flock, gaggling or not, in the quarry.

Our Swiss connection - part 9

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This is the ninth installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.
Note the various spellings of Lugibihl in this story.

Abraham Lugibihl was born Nov. 11, 1838, in Riley Township. He was the sixth of 10 children born to John C. and Anna Marie “Thüler”  (Americanized to Diller) Luginbuhl. The family came from France in 1824 to Holmes County, Ohio, and then to Riley Township in 1837.

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With a new year the Icon asks persons connected with local organizations to provide updates to their free Civic Organization listing.

Send updates to: [email protected]

We also invite organizations not listed to provide the following:
• Name of organization
• Contact person
• Phone number
• Facebook and or website link

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For more information about "Bluffton Anthology" click here

The late Robert Kreider provided 15 images of Riley Creek that he remembered while growing up in Bluffton in the 1930s. Here are five of those images:

• Told of a tribe of gypsies camping along the creek for a day under a weeping willow tree, fashioning chairs and baskets from the willowy branches.

4 council seats, 3 school board seats, 2 township trustee seat on the ballot

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This is a major election year in Bluffton.

Four council seats, three school board seats and two township trustee seats will be on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. Winners of those races will have 4-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2022.

Larry Hoffman named vice-president

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Bluffton school board selected Wes Klinger as its president for 2021 during its Jan. 11 reorganization meeting.

Several additional board appointments were made. Those follow:
• Larry Hoffman, vice-president
• Brad Dailey, official delegate to the 2021 Ohio School Board Conference
• Larry Hoffman, alternate delegate
• Brad Dailey, legislative liaison to the Ohio School Board Association
• Wes Klinger, student achievement liaison

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