By Mary Pannabecker Steiner
One of my brothers lives in the mountains of Virginia where he regularly picks a variety of wild berries on his runs up the mountainside and into the woods. This never really impressed me because I don't like blackberries and raspberries so why bother picking them?
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We would like to thank all the helping hands that were on Columbus Grove Road horse barn cleaning up storm debris. We really appreciate it!
With great gratitude,
Shawn, Nancy, Shane & Kolton Stratton
The June 29 severe wind storm was not kind to neighoring Columbus Grove. In fact, Columbus Grove was hit much harder than Bluffton in the storm.
The most striking result of the storm was that the Christy's on the Square building, a popular chocolate shop, experienced a lost front face.
Christy's is temporarily closed. The Icon is not aware of a decision on what will take place to the building on Grove's Main Street. The upper floor housed several apartments.
Vehicles parked in front of the business were demolished when the front face collapsed.
45817 has a new postmaster. He's Darrell Von Sossan of Ottoville, who started here on June 30. The new postmaster is a career employee with the United States Postal Service, where he first started as a clerk-carrier in Van Wert in 1988.
Von Sossan accepted the Bluffton position after serving as postmaster of Leipsic, 45856, since 2000. He replaces Danielle Laing who served the Bluffton post office as officer in charge since August 2011 when Everett Collier retired as postmaster.
Laing is now the officer in charge at the Leipsic post office.
By Jake Dowling, Icon intern
Ready, get set, swim! That command starts Friday at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool.
This year, Bluffton hosts the Western Ohio Aquatic League meet championships. The event, will bring hundreds of fans and swimmers to Bluffton for the next two days.
"Warms-up is at 7 a.m. followed by festivities at 9 a.m. and swimming beginning around 10 a.m." said Liz Diller, one of the two Bluffton swim team coaches. "Normally we have a couple thousand fans here, so it adds up pretty quickly."
