The Icon's December 2022 coloring page is a snippet of characters and details from the Ream Folk Art Display at the Bluffton Presbyterian Church at Main and Cherry. Print, color and share with friends and family! Print version HERE.
Decorating for the holidays? The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce has a prize for that. The chamber sponsors a residential holiday lighting contest to help spread the Blaze of Lights spirit throughout the village.
$1000 in Chamber Bucks will be awarded in 2022. There will be five categories each with a $200 prize. They are:
Best Overall
Best Lights
Best Decorations
Mayor’s Choice *
Chamber Choice *
To be considered for the Best Overall, Best Lights, and Best Decorations categories, an email including your name, address and phone number must be sent to [email protected] with the subject line “Residential Lights” or mail to Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 142, Bluffton, OH 45817 by December 2nd.
The Bluffton High School girls basketball squad defeated visiting local rival Lima Central Catholic Tuesday night 47-40 in non-league action to keep its record unblemished.
At the November Board of Education meeting for the Bluffton Exempted Village Schools, the 2023-2024 School Calendar was established, providing a total of 180 days of instruction and 3 days of Staff Service. The full calendar is attached and highlights are below.
Serendipity brought civil engineering student Vini Vieira de Souza from Brazil to Northwest Ohio, where at every turn he’s encountered people with an Ohio Northern University connection who are as committed to helping him succeed as he is to succeeding.
This summer, his journey brought him to Wessler Engineering in Bluffton, Ohio where three ONU alums are showing him that relationship-building — that distinctive ONU attribute — is an excellent foundation not just for college, but for life
Dr. Martina Cucchiara, associate professor of history at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, “Life and Death in the Shadows: Hiding Jews in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe during the Holocaust,” at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December. 2 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
Cucchiara’s topic was inspired by the Bluffton University student play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation. After more than two years, in August 1944, the Germans discovered their hiding place and arrested the family along with four other Jews. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.
