Bluffton middle school students, teachers and staff are collecting baby items for Hurricane Harvey victims. Several seventh graders posed with collected items after only one day of the drive. Students from left are Kinsey Wingate, Jack Hohenbrink, Amber Gladwell, Skyler Hicks and Xavier Luginbuhl. Click here to see how you can donate to the drive.
The Icon keeps an eye out for Bluffton oddities. This one is certainly in our top 10.
You'll find this cement fence post on the corner of Phillips Road and Lincoln Highway. The top of the post reads: "Sept. 1 1912." It was written in the post before the cement hardened. There's even an artistic design above the date.
The person who wrote the date on the post is unknown.
To make it more interesting, this could be the oldest existing graffiti - we are stretching the definition here - related to the entire Lincoln Highway. The highway was conceived in 1912.
Several Bluffton High School homecoming announcements were released on the school website this week:
2017 Homecoming Court:
Freshman: Clara Matthews and Simon Derstine Sophomores: Olivia Burner and Brandt Manns Juniors: Hannah Yost and Rhett Donaldson Seniors: Lean Conley, Sydney Hoff, Allison Wise, Dakota Bricker, Christian Groman and Kaleb Jefferson Crown Bearers: Bowen Shutler an Addie Althaus
Bluffton University will present a readers theatre titled, “I Have Not Forsaken the Word of God: Jacques d’Auchy’s Confessional Struggle,” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 1 in Ramseyer Theatre.
Bluffton council had several questions for Jack Huber, village administrator, on Monday night.
The questions concerned the administrator’s handling, or mishandling, of three village projects:
• Absence of financial details in the council packet detailing the next village payroll
• Village Internet server
• West Elm Street waterline project
The conversation became a Village Administrator 101 lecture as Roger Warren, Joe Sehlhorst and Phil Talavinia quizzed the administrator on his handling of the three items.
