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Notice anything missing? This winter the village purchased the property on the northeast corner of Jefferson Street/SR 103 and County Line Road intersection. The vacant house on the property was razed in late February. The village may use some of the property to extend the turning lane on SR 103 toward Tower Automotive.

Bluffton resident featured in lead story about K&M Tire in national trade publication

Bluffton resident Greg Ring, director of training and development at K&M Tire, Delphos, was recently featured in a front page story about K&M in "Tire Business," the bi-weekly tire dealer trade newspaper.

Ring addressed tire dealers during the Delphos wholesale distributor’s 2019 dealer conference held in Dallas, Texas. His photo was the feature photo of the issue accompanying the story.

Over 1,000 persons representing 500 different dealer locations plus 45 vendors attended K&M’s dealer conference.

The Icon would like to look at Beaverdam HS yearbooks and old Beaverdam photos

Do you have old photos of Beaverdam, Beaverdam school yearbooks or other Beaverdam history items?

The Bluffton Icon is interested in seeing your collection. The Icon is working on a photo project and is in need of photos and history information about Beaverdam.

Contact Fred Steiner, Bluffton Icon, at [email protected] or 419-889-3065.

The owner of this plate takes fishing very seriously. Percid is the name of a fish in the perch family. The Icon saw this plate in an ONU parking lot.

Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, associate professor of music at Bluffton University, will present the Forum “Songs for Resistance and Revolution” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12, in the Yoder Recital Hall.

Her presentation will examine the music of social movements—both sacred and secular—establishing the broader cultural context for songs of resistance from the Great War era.

Hanif Abdurraqib, a poet, essayist and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, will give a public reading at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 12 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall at Bluffton University. Abdurraqib is the author of a biography on A Tribe Called Quest called “Go Ahead in the Rain,” a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award nominee for “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much” and “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Pitchfork, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Esquire, GQ and Publisher’s Weekly. 

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