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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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Weather-wise, 2015 was a year to remember this way: temperatures rose to not-so-normal highs in November and December. And, few complaints were aired.
 
Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, offers 2015 weather stats to the Icon. A chart at the bottom of this story shows monthly averages. It also shows averages from 2006.
Here’s some of the 2015 highlights:
• 2015 average temperature: 50.9; the normal average temperature is 50.3
• 2015 high temperature: 91
• 2105 low temperature: -9

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Here’s a year-end quiz to see just how much you know about Bluffton.
All of the questions in this quiz are based upon stories posted on the Bluffton Icon in 2015. There are 15 possible points.
 
Scoring
Answer 4 or less: Do you really live here?
Answer 5 or 6: Hey, you are a serious Icon reader
Answer 7 or 8: Wow! You are in the know, congrats
Answer 9: You can create next year’s year-end quiz – probably now
Answer 10 or more: You either looked at the answers, or you are a well-read Bluffton native
 

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By Fred Steiner
First posted on the Icon Dec. 30, 2010 - revised for 2015
To best understand our community, it's helpful to appreciate the musical gene of those who carry a Bluffton birthmark.

Growing up in a household bursting of Swiss traditions, this truth became obvious early on in the shaping of my own attitude toward events swirling around me.

A case in point is the David Rothen New Year's caroling folklore. My parents' reference to this event centered on their teen years in the late 1920s.

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Here's something for new year's eve. It's Bluffton's oldest annual tradition.

Click here for an Iconoclast View of this tradition.

Traditional new year's caroling/serenading of the two David Rothen hymns of pre-1840s will again be sung on Dec. 31, 2015, led by the Swiss Historical Society. 

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Jeff Kantner of Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, announces the store's January bargains of the month.

These include:
• Your choice, either 20-pound black oil sunflower bird seed,
   or 40-pound wild bird food, $9.99

• 2-gallon, 6-ounce, palastic gas can, $7.99

• Your choice, either 16-pack AA or AAA alkaline batteries,
   or 4-pack 9 volt alkaline batteries and 8-pack C or D alkaline batteries, $10.99

• Your choice, either 2-pack, 7.5 watts, or 13 watts LED bulbs, $5.99

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