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Council personnel committee meets Friday

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 5, 2021 - 10:48am

The following meetings related to the Bluffton council take place  via Zoom.

• Personnel Committee – Friday, 1/8 at noon.
• Council Meeting – Monday, 1/11 at 7 p.m.

Contact Jesse Blackburn at [email protected] for the Zoom invitation.

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Here's last week's Icon poll results

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 3, 2021 - 9:53pm

Take this week's poll asking your opinion on the stimulas checks. Click here to take the poll.

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2020: The year Bluffton wore a mask

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.

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You'll have to sing a solo tonight

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.

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Consolidated Life Flight Network introduced in 2021

Bluffton Airport continues as one of Mercy Health's four bases in the new network
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 30, 2020 - 12:48pm

2019 saw 406
Life Flights from
Bluffton + 19 ground transports

On Feb 1, 2021, Mercy Health will introduce a consolidated Life Flight Network to handle its air and ground transportation services.

The Bluffton Airport is home to one of the four Mercy Health Life Flight bases involved in the new network. Other bases include a mobile ICU base, plus air bases in Wauseon and Sandusky.

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Christmas greetings from Ada to Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 30, 2020 - 10:21am

Here's the fourth in a series of Ada-Bluffton Icon Christmas picture exchanges.

Each day until Dec. 31 on Bluffton Icon we'll post a holiday lights photo from our neighbor community of Ada. And, as a small inset, you'll see the photo from Bluffton that is posted on Ada Icon.

In this installment, the larger photo shows ad Ada holiday lawn display. The inset shows Luke's window on Main Street, now posted on Ada Icon.

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