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Did you know that in 1958-59 there was a hotel on the second floor of what is today Reichenbach Steiner CPA?

That's where the "Hotel" sign hangs in this Main Street photo from six decades ago.

We'll allow your mind to wonder up and down Main Street as you check out this photo.

It looks like a 1955 Mercury is parked along the street. We'll consider that every vehicle in the photo was a V-8 lead-gas-only gas gussler.

2021 is right around the corner and the village is optimistic and hopeful that we will continue to make Bluffton successful and prosperous.

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To each and every one of you in the Village of Bluffton:

Here we are almost in the end of 2020. It has been a very challenging and interesting year to say the least. No matter what each of us faced in our personal lives or professionals lives, basically covid-19 consumed our lives, for the majority of 2020. I believe I can speak for most, to say this was something never experienced in our lifetime, and never want to experience again.

Jupiter and Saturn will be easy to see with the unaided eye by looking toward the southwest just after sunset

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FROM NASA - Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat tonight, Dec. 21.

What has become known popularly as the “Christmas Star” is an especially vibrant planetary conjunction easily visible in the evening sky over the next two weeks as the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn come together, culminating on the night of Monday, Dec. 21.

In 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the night sky, discovering the four moons of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

To consider request for temporary vestibule structure at 133 N. Main

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A special council meeting will take place to consider a request for a license to install a temporary vestibule structure onto the sidewalk at Luke's, 133 N. Main St.

The meeting is at 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 21, via Zoom. Contact Jesse Blackburn at [email protected] for the Zoom invitation.

The first motorized vehicle, radio, airplane, piped water and electricity in a house

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Ever wonder who owned the first motorized vehicle in Bluffton? Or, who had the first radio?

How about, who had the first running water hookup, electicity in a house? And, when was the first airplane spotted over Bluffton?

These obscure fact have answers. For the record, here goes:
• Frank Scott, a Bluffton banker, owned the first automobile in Bluffton. The exact date of the purchase is not known, but when he traded it in on his second car in 1904, it was mention in the Bluffton News of his having owned a car for “sometime now."

We opened our time machine and went back to 2011 to 2015

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You know the words… “I’ll be home for Christmas.”

We each know that  2020 isn’t exactly a year to come home to. And, because there was no massive elementary holiday music concert with standing room only in the BHS gym, The Icon dug out its time machine.

After all December holiday elementary concerts are among each Icon viewer’s highlights of the year, right?

We set the dial to five of our favorite Bluffton December’s past. Like 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and even a rare 2011 vintage.

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