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District athletic boards award college scholarships

Posted by Staff on August 10, 2023 - 9:03am

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio High School Athletic Association and its six District Athletic Boards have awarded $169,000 in college scholarships to 169 recent high school graduates following selections made by each of the OHSAA’s six District Athletic Boards. 

Athletes from the Bluffton and Ada Icon readership areas receiving OHSAA scholarships are:

Arda Dastan, Findlay 

Jared Griggs, Arlington 

Jacob Hershberger, Harrod Allen East 

Hailey Hochstettler, Findlay Liberty-Benton 

Samantha Scoles, Bluffton

Gabriella Wetherill, Kenton

Each of the 169 scholarships is a $1,000 award. The OHSAA’s college scholarship program, now in its 29th year, returned in 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to pandemic-related financial constraints. 

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Busy Bluffton weekend with 90-year and 150-year anniversaries

Posted by Paula Scott on August 10, 2023 - 8:43am

Don’t touch that dial! Don’t leave town this weekend without first considering your Bluffton options including a street fair celebrating the 150th anniversary of St. John’s UCC and the introduction of Bluffton History Day.

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Join the Dillinger gang in a WANTED poster

Posted by Staff on August 9, 2023 - 9:37am

If you’ve ever needed a wanted poster with your photo on it, Saturday is your chance to fulfill this unusual dream.

One feature of Bluffton History Day on Saturday, Aug. 12, is the availability of a print-on-site Dillinger wanted poster with your photo printed on it.

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Butterfly buffet

Posted by Paula Scott on August 9, 2023 - 7:24am

(If our Googling is correct) this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly is enjoying a buffet among the echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower) of a Bluffton garden. The gorgeous creature fluttered away at first sight of our photographer, but fluttered back to enjoy a long drink.

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Busy Special Election day at the Bluffton polls

Posted by Paula Scott on August 9, 2023 - 7:17am

Issue 1 does not pass

The August 8 Special Election had a higher than expected turnout across the state of Ohio. The unofficial results, with a total of 3,059,440 votes cast, are a rejection of State Issue 1 “Elevating the Standards to Qualify for an Initiated Constitutional Amendment and to Pass a Constitutional Amendment.” Votes reported by the Ohio Secretary of State are:

YES - 1,315,346 - 42.99%
NO - 1,744,094 - 57.01%

Bluffton polling place manager Edna Conkling told the Icon that “it was very busy, very surprising. They did not expect us to have this many votes.” All Bluffton precincts had to have an additional supply of ballots provided.

After the polls closed at 7:30 p.m., Bluffton poll workers reported 1,069 in person votes plus 15 provisional votes.

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SCHS Heritage Center enters construction phase

Posted by Staff on August 9, 2023 - 6:17am

By Paula Scott

Watching a massive excavator dig the basement for the new Heritage Center at the Schumacher Homestead, the question soon arises, “how long did it take to dig a cellar by hand in the mid 1800s?” Soil sifts down from the moving bucket but it is also heavy with limestone chunks. The operator smiles and compares it to “taking apart a mountain.”

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