This completes our out-of-state (and province) three part series with Nebraska, New York and finally Ontario. All three plates were parked in a row on Main Street.

It's almost back-to-school time. If you are a middle school parent, there's lots of information on The Icon to help you prepare your student for the 2010-11 school year.

For starters, here general back-to-school information. Click here to view, or open The Icon "Forms" page to view material.

This is a busy week for the construction schedule at Bluffton Hospital.
The construction site will be receiving three truck loads of steel, which will be offloaded inside the fenced work area.

Steel workers will use this steel to begin erecting, by means of a crane, the structural framing of the two-story addition, which includes the new Emergency Department.

By mid-week, the roofers will begin to apply a finished roof to the new operating room area located on the corner of Garau Street and Harmon Road. This process will take approximately a week to complete.

It's an all-new band season coming your way soon at Harmon Field most Friday nights this fall.The Bluffton High School band is in summer band camp rehearsals this week.

According to Dave Sycks, band director, the band will perform an informal marching band show for parents and the public on the Harmon Field practice field at 6 p.m., Friday, Aug. 20.

"We will be performing our first show, hopefully some of our second show and pre-game, said Sycks.At 6:30 p.m. the band will depart for the Allen County Fair band show.

The Putnam County District Library will have story time in Pandora weekly from Aug. 30 to Nov. 18.

Pandora's story time is held Wednesdays at 10 a.m. The event introduces young children to books and reading.

This is the second part of a three-part series of out-of-state plates The Icon captured recently on Main Street. Vehicles from Nebraska, New York and Ontario were parked in a neat row. Here's the Empire State plate.

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