Leave items for pickup on your front porch by 9 a.m.
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 11, 2021 - 9:30am
Bluffton Boy Scout troop 256 will “scout for food” on Saturday, according to Brad Taylor.
Bluffton scouts will canvas the community to pick up donations placed on front porches.
Canned food and non-perishable items may be donated. As in previous years, the scouts are collecting food that will be donated to the Bluffton Community Assistance Program’s food pantry, located in the St. John’s United Church of Christ.
This is the 17th installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.
This column’s focus is on John Ulrich Amstutz, a farmer and tradesman, whose farm was located on the south side of the Allen-Putnam County Line Road, just east of where the Suter Morning Star Cider Press is today.
On his farm, John U. had a jewelry shop, clock shop, cider press, cane press for sorghum and a machine shop. He was also an undertaker and made over 400 coffins in 43 years.
Meters installed last summer cost the village $400,000
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 4:39pm
Remember last summer when village employees replaced the water meter in your lawn?
The project involved 1,450 meters, each containing a radio transmitter that sends water usage by household to the village for monthly billing purposes. That project took all summer to complete.
This fall, after discovering some glitches in about 277 of the radio transmitters, Sensus, the company serving the contract announced that it will replace all 1,450 radio devises in the meters at no cost to the village, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.
Bluffton University freshman Montez Archer Jr. (Detroit, Mich./Martin Luther King) followed up his Heartland Conference Player of the Week by being named to the D3football.com Team of the Week.
Archer had a career day in just his second collegiate football game on Saturday. The starting cornerback was one of six players from the Heartland Conference to be honored nationally this week. He helped lead the Beavers to a 49-14 road thumping of Manchester University on Saturday, March 6, 2021.
Bluffton High School sophomore art student Riley Pearson designed this proposed snowplow illustration in an Ohio Department of Transportation snowplow contest and is the state winner in the high school category. Riley created the drawing, entered it, and it made its way through judging. In the end, it won by the number of online votes it received. The Icon will feature the artist tomorrow in a separate story.