By Sam Brauen www.blufftonpirates.com
(BLUFFTON) – Alivia Koenig scored a game high 22 points as Bluffton won their third straight contest with a 58-43 defeat of Paulding and improved to 6-2 on the season.
Koenig connected on seven three pointers in the romp and in doing so, passed Caity Matter for the Bluffton school record for all time career three pointers made. Libby Schaadt added 14 points and 6 rebounds in the win.
Isaac Zickafoose, a Bluffton University senior, is one of the finalists in The Little Rock Touchdown Club and Wright Lindsey Jennings sixth annual Cliff Harris Award. The award is presented to the nation's top small college defensive player representing more than 5,000 defensive players from almost 500 NCAA Division II, Division III and NAIA colleges and universities.
The Swiss Community Historical Society is inviting the public to join in singing of traditional New Year’s Eve carols of the Swiss Settlement, Bluffton-Pandora.
From 4 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 31, carolers will gather at the Maple Crest lobby, 700 Maple Crest Court, Bluffton. Caroling will take place at Maple Crest first, then Willow Ridge, 101 Willow Ridge Drive, and finally at Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W Elm St.
In the spirit of this year’s Blaze of Lights, the Icon offers viewers a daily local gift idea based upon the 12 Days of Christmas theme. There’s no need to shop out of town or on the internet for Christmas gifts this year.
Danielle Novak, a junior, is the Bluffton High School December student of the month.
She is a member of Art Club, Latin Club, Student Senate and is on the Academic Team. She received "Best in the Class" awards in English and Latin (two separate times), and also one in Science, History and Art. She has received a Gold Medal for the National Latin Exam three years in a row. Danielle is also a member of the BHS soccer team.
If you've ever wanted to dig into the village files to find a certain ordinance, you'd be in for a long search. Ordinances are all over the place.
But, that will change sometime in 2019. The village has contracted with American Legal Publishing Corp., of Cincinnati to resolve the problem.
Jesse Blackburn, village administrator, shared the first draft of an estimated 750-page document titled "Village of Bluffton, Ohio, Code of Ordinances." We're guessing at the 750 pages, based on 500 sheets of paper pile. It could be 1,000 pages.
Responding to your request for comments from viewers who once lived in Lincoln Hall on the Bluffton University campus, the hall was a women’s dorm in the early 1950s and I lived there for three years. Miss Edna Ramseyer was the House Mother during those days. Felt a bit sad it was going to be demolished, but am so grateful. Bluffton University will have a wonderful, much needed, science building.
In the spirit of this year’s Blaze of Lights, the Icon offers viewers a daily local gift idea based upon the 12 Days of Christmas theme. There’s no need to shop out of town or on the internet for Christmas gifts this year.
On the sixth day of Christmas I shopped at...
Shannon Theatre, 119 S. Main St.
Where I purchase a book of eight (2D) movie passes for $20. (These prices last through Dec. 23.)
