Bluffton's fall festival is Saturday, Sept. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival features seven settings that attract youth, history buffs, arts and crafts devotees, fishing enthusiasts, quilters, movie-goers, and those just looking for a good time on an early fall weekend.
Most of the activities are free, with literally, something for everyone. All locations share free transportation between sites via vans and horse drawn wagons.
Guess who's throwing a first anniversary party... and you are invited. The Bluffton Icon, Bluffton's free on-line news source, celebrates its first anniversary with a party at Common Grounds.
The event, open to the public, is from 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22, the actually anniversary date that the website went live in 2009.
Guests will be treated to free Bluffton Icon coffee, a birthday cake, cupcakes and the unveiling of a special Bluffton Icon-flavored Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn. The event will also include a ribbon cutting.
This week the come-from-behind plot did not develop for the Bluffton Pirate football team. Delphos Jefferson won the NWC contest at Harmon Field 19-15. To view the complete game stats click on the attachment.
The Bluffton Schools will hold a district-wide open house on Monday, Sept 13.
The elementary school will be open from 6 to 7 p.m., the middle school from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and the high school from 7 to 8 p.m. Several community organizations will have booths set-up in the elementary gymnasium and information will be available on ways to provide support to the school and community.
Bluffton High School girls' soccer team hosted another game at Steinmetz field this past Saturday against Defiance. Pretty evenly matched, Bluffton had four shots, with Defiance close behind with three in the first half.
Care to go geocaching? Here's the first four coordinates in The Icon Dash for Cache contest. This is the first time The Icon has released the coordinates for number 3 and 4.
Prizes are in each cache. There are six in all. Click here for more background on this contest. In the meantime, here are coordinates 1 through 4.
