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Ada-Bluffton headline swap March 27-April 2

Posted by Paula Scott on April 2, 2023 - 11:07am

Do you know the way to www.AdaIcon.com? Here's an easy shortcut to news from our neighbors up SR 235 for the week of March 27-April 2:

Arab American theater highlighted in ONU festival

An Ada business since 1986, Carol Slane Florist is Business of the Year

ONU hosts April 1 National Robotic Football Tournament

Board of Education meeting includes BVC discussion and interim superintendent appointment

Student Carmen Mancuso interviews professor David Kosmyna

Watch for the Icon's headline swap on Sundays.

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Pirate softball shut out at Carey

Posted by Staff on April 2, 2023 - 10:08am

Pirates home opener vs. Arcadia is 5 p.m. on April 4

By Cort Reynolds

CAREY–Bluffton High School lost to Carey 10-0 in a non-league softball bout Friday evening, March 31.

The Pirates dropped to 2-1 after suffering their first loss.

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Sports
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Pirates hosted March 28 track meet

Posted by Paula Scott on April 2, 2023 - 10:04am

A gallery of photos by Jamie Nygaard provides a track and field-level view of the March 28 home meet hosted by Bluffton High School at Bluffton University. The BHS Pirates competed against the Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan Raiders and the Lima Bath Wildcats. See Bluffton results HERE.

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Pirates home track tri-meet recap

Posted by Staff on April 2, 2023 - 9:58am

Photo gallery by Jamie Nygaard on Facebook

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School boys track and field team won a three-team meet at the Bluffton University facility on Tuesday, March 28. Bath and Ben Logan also competed in the event.

Several Pirates posted first-place finishes at the meet (complete Bluffton results HERE.):

Senior Sam Derstine crossed the line first in the boys 800 meters (2:02.4). Classmate Eden Antrim came home first in the 1600 (4:51.2).

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St. Mary's Holy Week schedule

Posted by Paula Scott on April 2, 2023 - 9:09am

St. Mary's Catholic Church, 160 N. Spring St., has provided the attached schedule for 2023 Holy Week services including April 6, Holy Thursday; April 7, Good Friday; April 8, East Vigil; April 9, Easter Sunday.

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Worship
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How many saloons in Bluffton in the 1890s?

Posted by Staff on April 2, 2023 - 8:47am

Twelve or thirteen, no one knows for certain

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

How many saloons existed in Bluffton in the 1890s? No one is really certain. There may have been 12 or 13... and they moved around and changed hands often.

Piecing together what we know about many of these establishments the map provides a picture of saloon locations in the 1890s.

Consider today that nearly 40 businesses exist between the town hall and the public library, including Vine and Cherry streets. Imagine in a dozen of those as saloons. How many offered 100 proof drinks and how many were for men only?

One of those saloons, The Monarch Billiard Saloon, posted this advertisement in a July 1893 issue of the Bluffton News.

"Take notice – Having just added to my former large stock, some of the best brands of fine liquors and wines I am now prepared to offer for sale such as: • 8-year-old Overholt rye

• 12-year-old Crow

• 7-year-old Gugenheimer rye

• 10-year-old Kentucky Club

• 6-year-old Crystal Rock

• 8-year-old Hancock Club

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Historical Bluffton
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