Posted by Fred Steiner on January 1, 2021 - 1:02pm
Here's the Mayor's Choice Award in the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce residential lighting contest. It's at 503 Greding St., the residence of Karen and Randy Keeler.
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2020 - 3:55pm
Note: This obituary and several other stories were deleted by Webrfaction last week when the Icon was offline. We've since reposted it.
Jack M. Fields, 84, died Dec. 23, 2020, at the Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. Jack was born Sept. 19, 1936, in Bluffton to the late Robert and Gertrude (Free) Fields. On Aug. 16, 1957, he married Carol Moser Fields who survives.
Jack graduated from Bluffton High School where he was the all-time leading scorer for 44 years with 916 points and will be remembered as an outstanding rebounder.
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2020 - 2:35pm
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Bluffton boys basketball team lost to hot-shooting Arlington 87-71 Wednesday night in the de facto finals of their annual Christmas break holiday tournament.
The Red Devils drained 13 three-point goals to overcome an early deficit and win going away over the Pirates.
It was Bluffton's second game in as many nights after beating Continental 68-40 Tuesday in what normally would have been the tourney semifinals.
Here's 12 photos from each month of the year most would like to forget
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2020 - 2:01pm
How will you remember 2020? (Or, won’t want to remember 2020)
Let us count the ways:
• Covid-19
• Masks, or un-masked
• School year disruptions
• Cancellation of most community events
• Swimming pool opens!
• School in session 4 days in class, 1 day at home
• Presidential election
• Limited holiday travel
No matter how you will remember 2020, the Icon joins you in the hope that 2021 will be a better year.
Before we change calendars, the Icon offers 12 photographs from Bluffton's 2020, one for each month.
No group singing of Bluffton's oldest tradition this year
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2020 - 1:37pm
Covid-19 curtailed this year's New Year's Eve group sing of the David Rothen carols. So, we invite you to sing them by yourself and we hope to bring back the group choir singing next year. Here's the story about the oldest tradition in Bluffton.
To best understand our community, it's helpful to appreciate the musical gene of those who carry a Bluffton or Pandora birthmark.
Growing up in a household bursting of Swiss traditions, this truth became obvious early on in the shaping of my own attitude toward events swirling around me.
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2020 - 12:59pm
Here's the third place winner in the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce residential lighting contest. It's at 347 Sycamore Court, the residence of Vicki and Paul Gesler.