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Letter: Jan Emmert provides more details to our Dec. 24 Bluffton Santa photo from the early 1950s

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 4, 2016 - 9:58am

Note: Jan Emmert provides the following additional information concerning the photo of Santa that the Icon posted on Dec. 24. The information provided is a portion of an email he sent to his brothers and sisters.

There are two things of interest to our family in this picture in the Bluffton Icon of downtown Bluffton, including the old Citizens Bank in the Center of town. 

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Nettie Ferrall funeral arrangement incomplete

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 3, 2016 - 3:01pm

Nettie Ferrall, 93, of Bluffton died Jan. 2, 2016, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.  Arrangements are pending at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Men's hoops moves to 8-3 with win at Franklin

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 2, 2016 - 8:09pm

January 2, 2016
By: Ryan Schadewald, sports information assistant

Stats

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Bluffton University
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Bluffton women rally at Franklin to stay perfect

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 2, 2016 - 5:41pm

January 2, 2016
By: Ryan Schadewald, sports information assistant

Stats

FRANKLIN, Ind. - The Bluffton University women’s basketball team trailed for most of the contest, but stormed back in the final period for a 69-68 victory over the Franklin College Grizzlies on Saturday, Jan. 2.  With the win, Bluffton remains a perfect 11-0 on the season and takes sole possession of first place in the HCAC with a 4-0 mark. Franklin slipped to 7-4 and 3-1 in conference play.

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Bluffton University
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Bluffton Icon was "clicked" and visited 445,600 times in 2015

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 2, 2016 - 12:49pm

 Q: How many individuals viewed the Bluffton Icon in 2015?
A: Would you believe 138,203? That’s the answer, according to Google Analytics. 
 
The analytic program tracks more statistics that we know what to do with. Needless to say, it reveals lots of significant information.
 
We’d like to share some of our 2015 facts and figures with viewers. For starters, those 138,203 viewers clicked on the Icon almost one-half million times, or an average of 1,220 total visits per day!
 
2015 viewer summary
 

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Iconoclast View
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See you in November

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 1, 2016 - 8:48pm

The lights from the Ream holiday folk art display will turn off for the final time this Christmas season. It will all return next Thanksgiving weekend. The Bluffton chamber provided free maps of Bluffton's holiday lights. The maps were in the red mailbox on the Presbyterian lawn for out-of-town visitors. Over 500 maps were distributed from Thanksgiving to Jan. 1, which reveals the traffic from out of town into Bluffton this holiday season.

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