"I forgot my gloves and I can't feel my thumb!"
"I forgot my gloves and I can't feel my thumb!"
- Mark Smith
That's the winner caption to our most recent "write a caption to this photo" contest. The photo shows Nate Gundy with thumb in the air sitting with Brett Buller at the state semi-final boys' Division III soccer game.
Nate and Brett, both BHS soccer alums, live in Orrville and attended the game that sent Bluffton HS into the state finals.
Icon viewer Mark Smith wrote the winning caption and will receive five passes to the Shannon Theatre.
Over 30 entries were submitted. Here are the honorable mentions:
I’m camped out in front of the Shannon theatre waiting for the Frozen movie to come out in two weeks.
- Angie Dirmeyer Whitaker
Look at me, I’m a hitch hiker.
- J.W. Shannon
Yes, I slept at Holiday Inn Express last night.
- Sean Burrell
Yep, I learned how to swim in the quarry!
- David Jones
Hey, the Browns are winning.
- Wesley Fleming
We are just here for the cookies.
- Travis and Elisa Kleman
In a category by itself:
It was just a fart this time.
- Kaleigh Oberly
Special Mention:
Back in our day we played soccer on lumpy, narrow football fields. You got extra points if you hit the gopher sticking its head out of the hole…
- Brett Buller
Stories Posted This Week
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Friday, June 5, 2026
- Stay tuned for Pirate action at OHSSA state track and field coverage
- Ada Icon headlines, June 5
- Wheeler graduates from Ohio Bankers League Bank Leadership Institute
- Ellerbrock awarded Lima Memorial Nursing Alumnae Scholarship
- Pirate speedsters Wright and Miller each advance to 2 state finals
- Golfers, sponsors invited to support American Legion fundraiser
- Letter: Alternatives to Village mosquito fogging
Thursday, June 4, 2026
- Eileen Ruth Garmatter was a homemaker
- Elnore Ruth (Rosenberger) Yost taught at Marimor
- WGTE and WBGU create broadcasting partnership
- ICYMI: May 2026 Bluffton Icon Highlights
- Shoppers' journey with Bluffton Small Business Passport has begun
- Middle and high school student activities at BPL
- Local artist Crumrine to teach Watercolor Workshop at Library
- Lacrosse or La Crosse: Game versus virus
- 2027 Senior Center trip planning, June 11
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
- Cory-Rawson High School honor roll for fourth quarter, 2025-2026
- Bluffton High School 4th Qtr. Honor Roll for 2025-2026
- June 4 Business Collective speed networking event
- K-2 students invited to weekly dinosaur adventures
- Library program explores indigenous agriculture and heirloom seeds
- May 2026 land transfers in the Bluffton school district
- Register June 18-19-20 garage sales with Bluffton Chamber
- Create a Bike & Flowers painting at BPL