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Cory-Rawson students win Paint the Plow by a landslide

Posted by Staff on May 28, 2022 - 6:00am

Hancock County’s Cory-Rawson High School took home both the ODOT choice award and people’s choice award in a clean sweep of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) District 1’s annual Paint the Plow contest. The plow’s artwork honors Bluffton Police Department Officer Dominic Francis.

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SHANNON scholarships awarded to Bricker and Nickel

Posted by Staff on May 27, 2022 - 7:44am

The S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club of Bluffton has awarded two “Service To Humanity” scholarship awards, given to graduating seniors of Bluffton High School. 

The 2022 outstanding $1000 scholarship winners are:

Sophie Bricker, daughter of Tyler and Sarah Bricker.  Sophie plans to enter the field of Integrated Mathematics Education at Bowling Green State University.

Ellie Nickel, daughter of Kevin and Kendra Nickel.   Ellie will pursue a degree in Psychology at Goshen College.  

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Apollo Career Center lesson in motor sports

Posted by Staff on May 26, 2022 - 8:11am

Apollo Career Center students in the Robotics/CNC Technology porgram were visited by JRT MotorSports.

John Hochstetler of Bluffton, and Terry Moran and Ryan Moran of Ottawa, race the USAC D2 Midget Series pictured here.

The Apollo students have machined some of the parts for the midget, and the team races April through October throughout Ohio and Indiana.

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How Bluffton high-miler got his start

Posted by Paula Scott on May 26, 2022 - 7:20am

Bluffton’s Mike Rhonemus was recently awarded the 2021 High Mileage Award for 21,005 outside miles ridden, an honor presented by the Northwest Ohio Toledo Area Bicyclists. His goal was to ride the number of miles around the equator and--with indoor miles added--he did.

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You do the math: Dina Tadena retires after 34 years

Posted by Paula Scott on May 25, 2022 - 6:00am

Dina Tadena is retiring after working at the Bluffton Middle School as a math teacher for the past 22 years. She previously taught at the Apollo Career Center High School and has a combined total of 34 years at area schools. The total number of students she taught? What would you guess? 

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Photo-story: Night at the Museum is a smash hit

Photos by Jamie Nygaard and Bluffton Icon
Posted by Paula Scott on May 24, 2022 - 7:27am

The May 18 Night at the Museum hosted by Bluffton Middle School was a star-studded, high-drawing event, which featured students who selected a career, country or historical figure to study, dressed according to that topic, and created a poster presentation to share with visitors to the living museum.

The displays created rows around the middle school cafetorium and filling the gym. Friends, neighbors and families including younger siblings snaked their way past the displays.

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