Bluffton Icon's high school-college football contest for week 2 is now available to enter. The contest features 10 high school games and five college games. The deadline to enter is 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 31.
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Here's another 1961 Bluffton centennial photo. Ezra Moser and Archie Diller are demonstrating how to work a cider press. Leland Gerber photo.
Jamie Mehaffie, Bluffton village administrator, will attend an applicant's briefing on Sept. 5 in hopes to have the village qualify for clean-up reimbursement funds due to the June 29 severe thunderstorm.
Mehaffie said that no individual assistance is authorized from the storm - only municipalities. The village administrator hopes to begin the process for reimbursement of eligible costs incurred by the village.
All-session tickets go on sale Monday, August 27, beginning at 9 a.m. for the 2012 Ohio High School Athletic Association State Football Finals.
The six championship games will take place on Friday, November 30, and Saturday, December 1, at Fawcett Stadium in Canton and Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon. 2012 marks the 23rd year that Stark County will host the state football championships.
By Meghan Mohr, sports information assistant
HCAC pre-season Coaches Poll http://www.bluffton.edu/sports/volleyball/2012/hcacpoll.pdf
The Bluffton University volleyball team opens its 2012 season Friday, August 31, at the Marietta College Tournament against the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
The winner of Week 1 of The Icon Football Contest is Duane Bollenbacher. He picked all 15 games correctly.
Other contestants:
o 14 correct - John Clevidence, Marvin Foster and Todd Fleharty.
o 13 correct - Adelyn Althuas, Barry Schneck, Brad Smith, Dan Smith, David Glick, Joe Sehlhorst, Joe Suter, Luke Amstutz, Mary Glick, Nancy Armour, Rick Armstrong and Tom Heimann.
o 12 correct - Dave Moser, Mark Delisle, Mark Sommers, Mike Burris, Randy Stewart, Ryan Kruse and Scott Gleason.
By Bryan Kress
The 2012 Bluffton football season started with a broken record and an impressive showing on the ground. Bluffton racked up 270 yards rushing and even more importantly, limited Cory-Rawson to only 134 yards of total offense on their turf.
With a convincing 30-0 showing in the first game of the season on the road, Bluffton seems poised to be a tough match-up this upcoming year.
In mid-September, The Bluffton Icon's sister publication, The Ada Icon, will be six months old. We like to take a moment and share with viewers some of the interesting stats about we've experienced in our first six months with The Ada Icon.
If you've not yet checked it out go here: www.adaicon.com.
These are according to Google Analytics:
7,450 total visits to the site
3,474 individual viewers (some check in twice a day!)
20,322 pages visited
2.73 pages views per each visit
The Village of Bluffton will see its annual population spike this weekend, beginning Friday, Aug. 24, with about 280 new first-year and transfer students moving onto the Bluffton University campus.
New student move-in, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, will open a weekend on which other Bluffton undergraduates will return to campus for the start of classes Monday, Aug. 27.
Capping the weekend, from 7-9 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, both new and returning students will continue a fall semester-eve tradition with an ice cream social on Bluffton's Main Street.
