Manchester's Jason Spindler dropped in a jumper with seven seconds remaining to send Bluffton home with a heartbreaking 59-58 loss on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Bluffton slipped back under .500 in the conference (10-6, 4-5 HCAC) while Manchester improved to 6-10 and 4-5 in the HCAC.
The Bluffton University women's basketball team earned their third straight HCAC victory on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, taking down the Manchester College Spartans, 54-50, in Founders Hall.
Prices for most Postal Service mailing services will change on Sunday, Jan. 22. Mailing services includes First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, Periodicals, Package Services and Extra Services. Prices for shipping services will also change on Jan. 22.
While actual percentage price increases for various products and services varies, the overall average price increase across all mailing services is capped by law at 2.1 percent, the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
Margaret Thompson has joined Citizens National Bank as Assistant Vice President/ Branch Operations Coordinator.
In this role, she is responsible for the daily retail operations function at CNB and will be working with all the branches in the bank's 10-county area.
You might call Joe Sehlhorst a true "man about town." He seems to be everywhere. Sehlhorst earlier this month added one more line to his hometown resume when he joined Bluffton council on Jan. 9.
He credits his family as a major reason that he sought the office, but we all know it's lots more than that.
"My great uncles, Bob, Gene and Jim Benroth always took pride in Bluffton. I knew it was home and I wanted to get involved," he said. "Politics in Bluffton is more of a town pride thing."
Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, has purchased a nuclear medicine scanner that provides high-quality images that describe both the nature and precise location of disease. This equipment helps physicians quickly and accurately diagnose conditions such as heart disease and cancerous tumors.
The new nuclear medicine scanner, called the Infinia Hawkeye 4, is an innovative hybrid scanner that provides enhanced images through a quick and painless scan that exposes the patient only to the necessary radiation dose.
The Wall Street Journal headline read: "Kodak Teeters on the Brink." Reading this, my mind did a long, fast reverse. It stopped somewhere in 1970, inside the Bowling Green State University journalism dark room.
There I heard Jim Gordon, our photo professor, tell our Photojournalism 201 class, "There will always be film." Professor Gordon wouldn't lie. He may have even suggested we buy Kodak stock, but I'm not certain about that.
It was a very busy year for Bluffton EMS. Jan Basinger, chief, provided The Icon with the 2011 annual run totals. Here's a summary of the year:
The department responded to 475 calls, transported 343 patients and had 143 no transport runs for a total of 489 runs for the year.
The busiest month was June with 60 calls. The majority of all calls - 376 - were medical related. The department responded to 51 fire calls. Ten of its calls resulted in a Life Flight run.
To view the entire 2011 EMS run list, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.
