In September 2025, the Village of Bluffton installed a second "Welcome to Bluffton" monument, replicating the extremely large natural stone that was placed at the Bentley Rd. exit to I-75 in 2022 (pictured here). The first monument is make from the largest single piece of rock ever to be harvested from the Bluffton Stone quarry. The new matching, "mini" entrance marker is made of faux stone.
UPDATE: Print copies have been delivered to Bluffton Public Library, Bluffton Senior Center, Maple Crest, Musselman Library and the Village of Bluffton.
Dear Icon Highlights readers,
Welcome to the 6th monthly issue of a print version of the Bluffton Icon that is being distributed to our local libraries and a limited number of locations for in-house use. Highlights are a small slice of what appears online. In September 2025, we published 182 news items on BlufftonIcon.com!
The following five land transfers took place in the Bluffton Exempted Village School District for the month of September 2025 as reported on the websites of Allen County Auditor Rachael S. Gilroy and Hancock County Auditor Charity A. Rauschenberg.
ADRESS - SALE DATE - SALE PRICE - LAND USE - FROM/TO
AGRICULTURAL
7878 E Lincoln Hwy – 9/29/2025 – $3,300,000 – Agricultural Vacant Land – From Resa LLC to Racetrac Inc
By Brittany Grider, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist, Pediatric Hospitalists of Northwest Ohio
It's always a joyful moment when a new baby is born. Everyone in the family wants to come meet the new addition. A few days later, this precious little baby is struggling to breathe and needs to be in the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis.
RSV is a virus generally present in the winter, usually at its worst in January and February each year. We are starting to see cases of RSV in our community.
Mark LeRoy Weidner, age 82, lived an extraordinary life because he was an extraordinary man. He lived through many beautiful chapters and passed away peacefully beside his family on September 27, 2025 in Lititz, PA. He had a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was born the second of four children in Allentown to LeRoy and Viola Weidner. He met his future wife Susan in the church nursery at First Mennonite of Allentown.
