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Pandora council looking at creation of a village web site

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2011 - 10:20am

Pandora council is exploring the possibility of having a Pandora village web site. That topic was discussed at the March 8 council session.

The initial cost to set-up the site is $1,000 with a $4.45 per month hosting fee.

Council is working with Mark Suter, Pandora-Gilboa technology instructor on the project. It is hoped that the P-G Technology Club students will develop the site.

Several other items of business crossed council's table on March 8. The official minutes of the meeting follow:

PANDORA COUNCIL MINUTES - MARCH 8, 2011

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Regional news
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Retired from the Navy

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2011 - 10:09am

Here's a "retired navy" Ohio plate. The Icon spotted this on Main Street.

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Regional news
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Heidelberg posts pair of wins over Beavers (softball)

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2011 - 6:36am

The Bluffton University softball team dropped a pair of contests at Heidelberg University on a cold Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The Beavers fell to 8-7 on the season while Heidelberg upped its mark to 10-2 overall.

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Bluffton University
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Cherry Street and the 1913 flood

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2011 - 6:31am

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The Feb. 28, 2011, flood was devastating, but imagine cleaning up after the 1913 flood. Here's a photo of that flood taken on Cherry Street. The building on the very far left houses the Village Cut 'n' Curl today.

The building at the right was a Triplett storage building. Believe it or not, a fire occurred in the building during the height of the flood, probably caused by a short circuit. Bluffton firemen put out the fire, somehow.

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Historical Bluffton
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Warm then cold

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2011 - 9:49pm
Warm then cold

This was the scene in Bluffton on Monday. Tuesday, the weather changed, however, and colder temperatures prevailed.

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Former Bluffton resident publishes book on his grandfather, one-time Bluffton mayor and college faculty member

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2011 - 5:38pm
Bid Me Discourse, book cover

Former Bluffton resident David J. Rempel Smucker has published a biography of his grandfather, Boyd D. Smucker, who also once lived in Bluffton.

The book, titled "Bid Me Discourse," has as its subtitle: "Boyd David Smucker (1878-1936) Orator and Mennonite Educator." Boyd Smucker was a student and a professor at Goshen College in Indiana and a professor at Bluffton College, teaching oratory, presenting recitations, directing dramas, coaching debates, raising funds and recruiting students.

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