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Icon misinformed about raising wooden pool from bottom of Buckeye

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 2, 2012 - 4:30pm
Bluffton Buckeye swimming pool circa 1920s

The Icon apologizes for mis-information provided about reported plans to raise the wooden floating swimming pool from the depths of the Buckeye (Click here for that story, read by over 675 viewers).

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And now we present Icon Publications...bottom right corner of the home page

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 29, 2012 - 7:35am

Icon viewers:

Allow us to draw your attention to the bottom right side of our home page. There you'll see The Icon's most recent addition to our regular features. Thanks to a program called "Issuu" we are able to present material in a booklet or magazine format.

Earlier you may have noticed our posting of "Explore Bluffton." That was our first venture into this new feature.

At the moment, you'll see what we titled "The colors of spring in Bluffton, Ohio." It's a book, or magazine on the web featuring photos of Bluffton in full bloom.

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Student responds: The true regular scene in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 26, 2012 - 11:51am

By Kirstie Runion
Bluffton University student

A jogger with an iPod or a family walking a dog may be regularly seen in Bluffton-not "college students walking back to campus drunk after hitting the bars."

I would know. I am a senior at Bluffton University and have called it home for three years now. Majoring in English and Writing, it was hard for me to read such a biased story in Friday's Lima News.

The words and assumptions that were published in the article about a Bluffton student assault were hurtful to the university and community.

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One more new Icon feature - Icon Publications

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 26, 2012 - 8:06am

Just when you think you've seen it all, The Icon adds something new. Check out the "Icon Publications" at the bottom right of our homepage.

Earlier this spring you viewed Explore Bluffton, a 36-page booklet, called the Bluffton visitor's guide.

We've posted a new booklet for you titled "Icon Book of Spring Blooms, 2012." This new feature enables The Icon to create an online magazine that viewers are able to "turn the pages."

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Once a Beaver, now a RedHawk - Ed Stults joins Miami (Ohio) football coaching staff

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2012 - 6:44pm

Hey, Ed, can you get us some tickets to the Ohio State-Miami game?

Remember Bluffton alumnus Ed Stults? He's now a new coach at Miami (Ohio). Guess where they play their first game this year? (Answer below)

Joining the RedHawk staff are former Miami star Ron Carpenter and veteran coach Stults. Carpenter will coach MU's defensive backs and Stults will work with the RedHawk offensive line.

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Check out a "Bluffton" quote in the official Michigan Travel Ideas magazine

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 18, 2012 - 1:32pm

Icon viewer Dick Jordan pointed out an interesting "it's a small world" connection in the current issue of the Michigan Travel Ideas" official state travel guide.

One page in the guide refers to the Grand Haven area of western Michigan. Jim and Pat King of Bluffton are quoted in that section. Their part in the guide follows: "Jim and Pat King of Bluffton, Ohio, are looking at the paintings, too. Pat says they return to this area every year, this time with their grown kids. "We're in love with the lake - we always have to have something to remember it by."

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