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Icon now accepts photos for its free garage sale ads; plus there's more!

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2011 - 5:51am

Do we have a deal for people advertising garage sales in The Icon! In our second season of posting garage sales The Icon plans several new ways to promote your event.

Continuing our free garage sale policy, this year viewers may send one photo of an item or one photo showing several items to be sold at your garage sale. The Icon will post your photo with your garage sale ad. We hope that this increases your garage sale's attendance.

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March goes out like a snowman

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2011 - 10:23pm
March goes out like a snowman

March goes out like a snowman. This was the scene in Bluffton following an afternoon snowfall on March 29. This view is from Campus Drive.

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Bluffton High School track teams sweeps first meet

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2011 - 6:47pm

Both Bluffton High School boys and girls won their track season opener at Delphos Jefferson last Tuesday. After the relay meet at Waynesfield Goshen that was scheduled for Saturday was cancelled, the Pirates were more ready than ever to begin competition.

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Bluffton High School Fiddlers opening act for April 1 town hall concert series

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2011 - 6:43pm

Banjo and guitar player and singer Matt Brown will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Friday, April 1, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall in the Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, of the village cultural affairs committee.

Opening for Brown are the Bluffton High School Fiddlers, an after- school club.

The performance is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted.

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University civic engagement forum focus: global poverty

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2011 - 6:32pm

Dr. Jonathan Andreas, assistant professor of economics at Bluffton University, will present "A History of Global Poverty" at Bluffton's Civic Engagement Forum, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Founders Hall.

Free and open to the public, the forum is part of the university's 2010-11 focus on the civic engagement theme of "Living with Enough: Responding to Global Poverty."

Andreas, who earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois-Chicago, holds a bachelor's degree in American studies from Grinnell College in Iowa.

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WTGN FM

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2011 - 6:25pm

Witnessing The Good News - Lima's Christian radio station, WTGN FM, was in Bluffton earlier this week. The Icon spotted this plate in the Riley Court parking lot.

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