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This street painting project is not a creation of BHS seniors

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 18, 2015 - 2:54pm

They are painting Main Street, but it's not the BHS seniors.

Zimmerman Painting is involved in creating a new paint scheme for Main Street. This week the firm is removing and replacing the crosswalks at the following Main Street intersections:

   • College
   • Franklin
   • Church-Cherry
   • Vine
   • Elm
   • Jefferson

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It's only a paper moon - (it's not real grass)

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 13, 2015 - 2:24pm

Who hasn't walked, jogged, biked or driven past the Bluffton University football stadium and wondered what it looks like from the 50-yard-line on the home bleacher side.

Here's that look. The Icon visited the field earlier in the week and came home with several photos, which you may view below this story.

(The final photo is an artist's rendition of the completed field. The sixth photo shows a pile of turf cut up on the sidelines.)

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There was a time when Methodists kept the Catholic church key in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 11, 2015 - 11:39am

By Fred Steiner

Eariler this year I was asked a couple questions concerning the church key belonging to  St. Mary's Catholic Church, since I grew up across the street from it. I wrote this brief article for the church history and share it with Icon viewers.

My parents were Nelson and Margaret Steiner.

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Icon will disable "Comment" opportunities next week - all comments will become "Letters to the Editor"

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 5, 2015 - 5:20pm

Icon viewers:

Next week, The Icon will disable its "Comment" option on its stories for the time being. Viewers are welcome to make comments by emailing them to:

[email protected]

All e-mailed comments will be posted under "Letters." All letters must be signed by the writer. The Icon will also post the writer's hometown. When a hometown is not provided, The Icon will insert (hometown not provided by the writer) under the writer's name.

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Here's what we shared with an Ohio Magazine photographer

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 28, 2015 - 5:12pm

Josh Bickel, a photographer for Ohio Magazine, wanted to see the sights of Bluffton.

So, naturally, we took him to the clock tower of the town hall. Bickel was in Bluffton last Friday taking photos of Bluffton University campus and the village for an upcoming feature on Bluffton University. 

Watch for the September issue of Ohio Magazine. You can't miss the Bluffton University spread.

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Shannon Cemetery Commission: A group of citizens who will do the right thing

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 21, 2015 - 8:44pm

The Icon applauds Mayor Augsburger’s selection of members to the newly established Shannon Cemetery Commission.

All are members of the village of Bluffton, as this commission should be.

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