Bluffton Icon invites organizations scheduling events in 2021 to send information to the Icon for its montly calendar.
While 2020's events calendar fell by the wayside due to the covid-19 pandemic, Zoom and other social media platforms open many events to be virtual.
The Icon is interested in:
• 4-H meetings
• Township boards
• Club meetings
• Community programs
• Youth sports sign-ups
• Blood drives
• Raffles
• Church events
• any event that the public may participate in virtually
Several events are announced for January and February at the Bluffton elementary school. Here are items from the January school newsletter. Click here to read the entire newsletter.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Host Bluffton edged Fort Jennings 69-66 in a tight non-conference boys basketball battle Saturday night.
And, Bluffton defeated visiting Van Buren 39-31 in a low-scoring, non-conference girls' basketball game Saturday afternoon.
Accounts of both games are part of this story.
Boys' over Ft. Jennings
The Pirates and FJ battled to a 37-37 halftime tie as Trenton Donley drained four trifectas. Bluffton edged ahead with a 20-17 third quarter behind eight Carson Soper points.
Laykin Garmatter (3) checks in for the Bluffton HS girls' basketball team during a game earlier this season. Small, socially-distanced and masked crowds will forever be associated with the '20-21 winter sports season. (Marvin Foster photo)
Here's a Bluffton photo from what is believed to be a 1915 Fourth of July parade.
We base that upon the year of the vehicles in the photo, the bricked Church Street and the Russell Hotel on the left. The hotel burned to the ground in 1919. A very close examination of the license plates shows a "5." We also take into consideration the style of the dresses worn by the women walking toward Main Street.
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Rick Emmert writes:
In the fall of 1964, I was a lowly freshman in high school playing saxophone in Miss Souder’s marching band, the product of her initiative from the previous year, which we affectionately called “sax lessons” to train some of the clarinet players to play saxophone during the fall marching band season to give the band a stronger sound.
