You are here

Home

All Bluffton Icon News

Simon Derstine 2nd in DIII 800-meter at state meet

His 1:55.35 time is a Blufton High School record • Pirates score 11 points to finish in 21st place
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 7, 2021 - 2:10pm

Story by Cort Reynolds
Photos by Marvin Foster
WESTERVILLE - Several Bluffton boys track and field athletes competed well in the Div. III state meet held at Westerville North High School Friday and Saturday.

Section: 
Sports
»

It gets the green light

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 7, 2021 - 1:57pm

Monday, June 7, 2021, marks the first day of Allen County Regioinal Transportation bus service from Lima to Bluffton and back to Lima. Five weekday buses will stop in Bluffton. Here's the 8:48 a.m. right on time and on its way to SumiRiko. (The Icon added the word "Bluffton" on the bus for a hometown touch.) Click here for the bus schedule.

»

Long-term village strategic planning discussed

Bluffton planning commission's May 18 focus
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 7, 2021 - 1:19pm

Bluffton’s planning commission, meeting May 18, held a discussion focusing on long-term strategic planning needs of the village.

This is the first serious discussion on this topic since a Village Visioning Plan developed after a one-year study, which concluded in 2006.

Section: 
Public Meetings
»

Write a caption - maybe win a pizza

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 7, 2021 - 11:43am

Here's the latest chance for one Icon viewer to win a Padrone's pizza and a second viewer to win a Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn gift card.

Write a caption for this photo. It's Bluffton's mayor, Richard Johnson disembarking from the first test ride of the Allen County Regional Transit Authority's bus runs from Lima to Bluffton.

Email you entry to:
Caption contest, [email protected].

You may submit as many entries in the same email as you want.

Section: 
Iconoclast View
»

Elm Center country school 1916-17

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 7, 2021 - 11:00am

Here is a photograph of students who attended the Elm Center country school in 1916-17.

This school was located between Bluffton and Pandora. Today it would be in the Pandora-Gilboa school district. When this photo was taken each of the students spoke Swiss dialect at home, and English in school.

The teacher is Millen Geiger.

Front row from left, Ralph Diller, Monroe Hilty, Melvin Bucher, Ben Burry, Leonard Badertscher and Vilas Burry.

Section: 
Historical Bluffton
»

Bluffton Anthology: Robert Kreider's thoughts on Riley Creek

"With feeling of endearment, we called it the crick"
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2021 - 10:20pm

This is a portion of an essay by Robert Kreider on his thoughts on Riley Creek, as he grew up in Bluffton in the 1930s. His entire essay is published in Bluffton Anthology. For more information about the book click here.

1 – When we moved to Bluffton our lot on Spring Street ran down to Little Riley Creek; three Sundays straight my younger brother Gerald slide into the creek; careful, older brother me was enviously amused.

Section: 
Iconoclast View
»

Pages