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Single vehicle crash kills 18-year-old driver in Forest

Posted by Staff on October 2, 2023 - 1:13pm

The Hardin County Sheriff's office has made the following announcement: A single vehicle crash early Sunday afternoon has claimed the life of an Arlington man. 

Hardin County Central Dispatch received a 9-1-1 call at 12:14 p.m. reporting a crash of a vehicle into a tree at 18689 TR 22, Forest. 

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Police/Fire/EMS
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2023 Bluffton High School homecoming royalty

Posted by Paula Scott on October 2, 2023 - 7:56am

Ella Armstrong and John Paul Yoder were crowned the 2023 Bluffton High School Homecoming Queen and King on Friday, September 29. PHOTOS by Jamie Nygaard.

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Garlic talk on October 3

Posted by Staff on October 2, 2023 - 7:26am

Guest Speaker Amanda Wischmeyer, owner of Little Riley Creek Farm, will be talking about planting, raising and harvesting garlic at the October 3 meeting of the Gardeners of the Bluffton Pandora Area.

6:00 p.m. - October 3
Garden Club Meeting
Bluffton Public Library, Lower Level

Wischmeyer will be bringing four types of garlic (3 hard neck, & 1 soft neck variety) raised on her farm to sell.

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Events
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Four talks about Bluffton ghost stories

Posted by Staff on October 2, 2023 - 7:09am

Four Bluffton ghost story talks by Fred Steiner take place in October, according to the author of the newly released “Where Bluffton’s Ghosts Sleep.”

The talks, presented with PowerPoint graphics, are open to the public on the following dates:

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Events
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Prof. Buchanan to share prairie wetland research

Posted by Staff on October 2, 2023 - 7:03am

Jacob Buchanan, M’Della Moon endowed chair in botany and environmental science, will present the Colloquium, “The influence of environmental and biotic filters on prairie pothole community dynamics” at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.

During the presentation, Buchanan will discuss a subset of his dissertation.

The prairie pothole region is a massive wetland complex in north-central North America. This region is characterized by gentle rolling hills dotted with millions of small wetlands called prairie potholes. These wetlands support aquatic insects and crustaceans adapted to a harsh climate and seasonal availability of surface water. Buchanan will discuss the relative influence of temperature, disturbance, organismal movements and predation on the behavior of these communities.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Bluffton University
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Celebrating fall in Bluffton

Posted by Paula Scott on October 2, 2023 - 6:54am

Picture-perfect day in Bluffton HERE.

By Paula Scott
Icon editor

Sometimes the job of reporting for the Icon takes me out of my comfort zone. A case in point: the annual antique tractor show at Maple Crest which is a special feature of the Bluffton Fall Festival. The closest I’ve come to a tractor is an occasional hayride and the fact that my dad worked for Massey Ferguson in Detroit for most of my childhood.

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Iconoclast View
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