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Call the police

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 4:47pm

Here's a one-of-a-kind plate. It's on one of the Bluffton police cruisers.

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Letter: The "progressives" will ruin this country

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 3:52pm

Editor,

I disagree with Wendy Chappell-Dick and think the progressives are going to ruin this country. Progressives believe that the government must be involved in all levels of reform. The existing constitution is outdated and must be made into a dynamic evolving instrument for social change, using scientific knowledge and the development of administrative bureaucracy.

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Letters
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Joanne Niswander: Discovering Motter Park

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 1:06pm

By Joanne Niswander

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. My friend Mary and I had just left another friend's home where we had enjoyed lunch together. One of our table conversations had been about the spiffy new "Motter Metro Park" sign that had recently appeared along Grove Road, just across from Maple Grove Cemetery.

None of us had remembered seeing anything in the news about it. What was this new park in our midst?

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Columnists
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RSVP by Wednesday to attend Friday's free chamber breakfast

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 5:29am

The first free Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting of 2010-11 is at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 10, in the third floor of the town hall. Jerry Lewis, owner of the Bluffton McDonald's Restaurant, is the speaker.

Other agenda items include:

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Dash for Cache - second coordinate now available

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 5:17am

Care to go geocaching? Here's the second (and the first) coordinates in The Icon Dash for Cache contest. Prizes are in each cache. There are six in all. Click here for more background on this contest. In the meantime, here are the first two cache coordinates.

COORDINATE NUMBER 1 - RELEASED SEPT. 4
"Bluffton's New View"

Micro Difficulty: 1/5 Terrain: 1/5

Located along the main drag.

Stop in to see the "new face in town."

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A gourd with an angelic personality

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 5, 2010 - 8:59pm

Jodi Brauen holds an angel gourd. She and her husband, Don, will hold an open house offering hundreds of decorative gourds that they have created just in time for several fall holidays. Their open house is Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19, at their 7140 Tom Fett Road residence. To view other photos of their gourd creations click here.

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