"Looking back, looking forward" was the focus of the Nov. 11-13 fall meeting of the Bluffton University Board of Trustees, which accepted the final report of the university's 2006-10 strategic plan and began discussion of the next generation of the university's strategic plan and long-term vision during a daylong planning workshop that preceded the regular meetings.

"The board's focused review and planning activities provided an opportunity to gain some larger perspectives on the university," Bluffton president Dr. James M. Harder observed.

Here's a creative plate. The Icon spotted it on North Main Street.

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Bluffton's Blaze of Lights is Saturday. For the complete schedule click. For parade line up click. For info on the parade marshals click here.

Photo and story by Joshua D. Stallings, Icon intern

As you walk outside with a cup of coffee, a frosty breeze hits your face and chills go down your spine as the trek for the morning paper begins. The rising sun sits on the fence slowly melting the frost off the dying grass.

For some, the morning started long before the sun was up. And instead of slippers and a robe, these people are wearing blaze orange and camouflage. Fall in northwest Ohio brings another season with it: Whitetail deer season.

Thelma Bowersox

Thelma M. (Welty) Bowersox, 83, of Bluffton, formerly of Mt. Cory, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at the Bridge Hospice Center in Blanchard Valley Hospital.

She was born on Aug. 24, 1927, in Pandora, Ohio, to the late Levi and Golda (Doty) Welty. On June 11, 1948, she married Robert Bowersox at St. John's Mennonite Church in Pandora and they recently celebrated 62 years of marriage.

The Bluffton post office has released 2010 holiday shipping cut off dates for overseas, military mail and domestic mail.

Please open the attachment at the bottom of this story to view the shipping dates.

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