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The winner of Week 5 of The Icon Football Contest is Brad Jones.  He correctly picked 9 games this week.  

Other contestants:

8 correct - Jerry Cupples, Luke Amstutz, John Clevidence, Silas Amstutz, Lisa Paugh, Ross Emans, Landyn Fleharty, Scott Weissling, Brad Smith, Duane Bollenbacher, Nancy Armour, Shannon Weissling and Marc Staley.

The Bluffton school board will act on the purchase of approximately 2.23 acres of property along Triplett Drive-Harmon Road at its Monday night meeting.

The property is the parking lot of the former Triplett Corp. The land extends from East College Avenue to the north edge of the Steinmetz Soccer Field. The purchase price is $50,000.

Phill Talavinia is Bluffton’s newest council member.

Following interviews with eight potential candidates, the five Bluffton council members chose Talavinia by a 3-2 vote to replace Mitch Kingsley on the council.

Action took place in a special meeting held Sept. 25.

Rich Johnson was initially nominated for the vacancy. Acting on the motion to name Johnson to the vacancy, council voted 2 in favor and 3 against. Voting for Johnson were Sean Burrell and Roger Warren. Voting no were Everett Collier, Dave Steiner and Joe Sehlhorst.

Here's a section of the Bluffton Buccaneers midget football team during the Friday high school homecoming parade. Watch for more parade photos coming.

Here's a section of the Bluffton Buccaneers midget football team during the Friday high school homecoming parade. Watch for more parade photos coming.

By: Kaleb Schweiger, sports information assistant

MASON, Ohio - The Beaver harriers traveled south to the greater Cincinnati area to compete in the pre-national cross country invitational. This was the only opportunity that Division 3 schools across the nation had to compete on the course that will be used for the 2014 cross country national championship. As one would anticipate, a huge inter-regional field showed up and the Beavers rose to the occasion.

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