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Make me an offer

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 8, 2010 - 4:58pm

This was the scene in Bluffton and the Bluffton vicinity on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library's community garage sale emptied closests and garages and basements. This garage sale was Dottie and Gene Long's at the corner of Vine and Jackson.

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Krysti's Music Studio all-star cast performs at YFC fundraiser Aug. 14

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 8, 2010 - 4:11pm

Students from Krysti's Music Studio will be performing in the 3rd annual Performathon Fundraiser for Bluffton/ Pandora Youth for Christ/Campus Life.

Students will be performing Saturday, Aug. 14, from 8 a.m. until 1p.m. at the Campus Life building at 111 W. College Ave. Bluffton. The event is open to the public, and people can come and go as they like.

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Worship
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Not just another bean town

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 8, 2010 - 12:52pm

Wonder how many drivers in the Allen County seat have attempted to obtain this plate? First come, first served. The Icon spotted this on Main Street on Saturday.

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Regional news
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Hello, Susan

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 6, 2010 - 9:29pm

One of the summer's most familiar wild flowers, Black-eyed Susans, are in full bloom in Bluffton. Officially known as Rudbeckia hirta, the flowering plant is an annual, and sometimes an biennial and even a perennial.

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Newest stamp from the post office issued Aug. 12

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 6, 2010 - 6:57pm
Winslow Homer postage stamp

Here's the latest postage stamp soon to be available from the Bluffton post office. On Aug. 12, the U.S. Postal Service will pay tribute to Winslow Homer, an American artist honoring his works with the issuance of a commemorative stamp.

The stamp, which is the ninth in the American Treasures series, features Boys in a Pasture, an 1874 oil-on-canvas painting by Homer.

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Regional news
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Bluffton circa 1922

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 6, 2010 - 6:36pm

Here's an unusual snapshot taken in Bluffton. The people in the photo are ready to board the Western Ohio Railway (electric interurban) on Main Street. On the back of the photo is written: "Marie Ringleman taking a ride on the interurban in Bluffton, Ohio about 1922 or so."

Richard Jordan sent photo to the Icon with a note saying that he believes the handwriting on the back belongs to Austin Lehmann, whose wife was Helen Basinger Lehmann; she grew up at 536 S. Main St., sister of Ethel Basinger, who worked in Jordan's insurance agency.

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Historical Bluffton
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