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Jenny Sylak performs senior piano recital April 16

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 14, 2010 - 10:14am
Jenny Sylak

Jenny Sylak will perform her senior piano recital at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 16 at Albion College, Albion Mich.

She will be performing works by Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and Bela Bartok.

Refreshments will be provided at the reception following the concert. The performance is free and open to the public.

Albion is about 2 hrs and 15 minutes from Bluffton, off of I-94. The concert will be held in Goodrich Chapel on the Albion College campus. She is a Bluffton High School graduate and is the daughter of Phil and Lois Sylak, 235 Grove St.

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Letters: Good neighbors- priceless

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 14, 2010 - 9:21am

Icon viewers:
Remember that MasterCard ad showing everyday items and giving a price until the very end where a special moment is shown and the ad says "for everything else there is MasterCard"?

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Letter: Concern over "Value Added Taxes"

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 14, 2010 - 8:27am

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What is a Value Added Tax, commonly called VAT? These are taxes that we will be facing because of all the spending of our government. It is considered a consumption tax. It is a complicated tax but simply put, each stage or process a tax is added.

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Letters
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Diller School was a rarity with two rooms

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 14, 2010 - 6:57am

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NOTE: Viewers will discover The Icon is now enlarging its old photos to a high-quality view.

The Diller country school, rural Richland Township, was a unique structure because was a two-room school house. The building stands today and has been transformed into the Goldsberry residence at 7370 Grismore Road. This photo is from a photo post card mailed in 1908.

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Historical Bluffton
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Let's try this book!

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 13, 2010 - 8:30pm
Let's try this book!

Brothers Collin (7) and Ethan (5) Oglesbee of Bluffton check out the used books for sale during the Friends of the Library book sale going on this week at the Bluffton Public Library. In addition to the public library's used book sale, Musselman Library at Bluffton University is also offering books that are no longer in circulation for sale.

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Harmon Field stadium project will be re-bid

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 13, 2010 - 4:54pm

The Bluffton school board voted in a special meeting April 12 to re-bid the Harmon Field stadium renovation project after rejecting the previous bids.

According to Greg Denecker, superintendent, the initial bids on the stadium project were more than 10 percent above the preliminary estimate. The renovation is expected to total about $120,000.

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