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We might say "welcome to the new and improved" Bluffton Icon

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 4, 2013 - 1:25pm

Icon viewers will notice several improvements to our home page today. But, please, pardon our mess – renovations are still underway.

Our continued enhancements to The Icon will make it easier for the nearly 1,000 viewers who check the Icon each weekday. (Some days its higher than 1,000). Ryan Lowry, our technical director, is putting these changes in place.

We’ve basically added an entire new page to the home page and the improvements aren’t entirely completed.

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So, you think you know Bluffton, well, then where's this?

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 24, 2013 - 8:32pm

It resembles a sign from Roman antiquities. Yet, it's in Bluffton, and you've stepped over it lots of time. Maybe you never looked down. It's there. But where? 

For the answer, check the photos below this story.

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John Hartzler, the Holy Grail of Bluffton High School sports, is gone and we didn't even get to say goodbye

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 20, 2013 - 9:56pm

The Holy Grail of Bluffton High School athletics is gone and we didn’t even get to say goodbye.

John Hartzler – not a Bluffton household name in 2013 – died at age 100 in January. Who was John Hartzler? Why does his death matter?

Here’s the answer

In the dawn of Bluffton High School athletics the school played an independent schedule in all sports. Its team colors were red and white, but those teams were not called the Pirates. They had no mascot.

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840 feet above sea level - but where is it?

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 19, 2013 - 8:11am

How do we know Bluffton is 840 feet above sea level? There's a "bench mark," with that information. Where does one find the bench mark? 

Click on the photo below for the answer. You've passed it countless times. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bench mark is located at the corner of Main and East Elm Street in the lower outside corner of the town hall.

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Meet Millie

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 11, 2013 - 8:33am

The Icon welcomes Rachel Stutzman as a new columnist and blogger. She writes a blog titled "Small Town, Big World."  Here's a link to her blog and here's her second contribution.

I know.  Sweet, right?  Oh, but you should see her when she gets ahold of my slippers. Eight months old and I am completely out-maneuvered.

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Welcome new columnist and blogger: Rachel Stutzman

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 6, 2013 - 9:02pm

The Icon welcomes Rachel Stutzman as a new columnist and blogger. She writes a blog titled "Small Town, Big World." It will begin to appear regularly on The Icon. Here's a link to her blog and here's her first contribution.

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