The Icon's newest feature is a weekly sports photo slideshow of Bluffton High School's recent football contest from Troy M. Breidenbach, Bluffton sports photographer.
Photos are available for sale on Breidenbach's website Troy Breidenbach Photography.
Bluffton celebrates the arrival of fall at its eighth annual Fall Festival, Saturday, Sept. 24.
The festival includes activities at seven different locations. Here's information about the day:
Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., is the hub for all free transportation. Persons attending events are encouraged to park at one of the venues and grab the free horse and wagon rides, or the buses that travel to all locations.
The buses arrive and depart every 15 minutes from Maple Crest, Swiss Homestead, Suter's Corn Maze, Downtown and the Mennonite Home.
Ten Thousand Villages, 115 S. Main St., clearance sale just got better. According to Aphaphanh Nussbaum, manager, the 25 percent discount on clearance items is now 50 persent. This rate will remain in effect through Sept. 23.
This week is a big one for the Bluffton High School girls tennis team as it attempts to break the school record for consecutive wins.
Coach Tony Carmack"s 2002 team won its first nine matches on its way to a 15-4 season mark, the best in Pirate tennis history. Last week coach Jesse Sensenig's team matched that streak with a shutout win over Fostoria, now posting a 9-1 record.
The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library recently purchased two new toddler toys for the library's Reading and Discovery Area.
One of the toys, a Deluxe Mini Playcube, includes a roller coaster, pathfinder maze, abacus, rotating number and alphabet blocks and interlocking Wonder Gears.
The cube provides the first building blocks for creative, intellectual development as it stimulates basic learning skills such as visual tracking, eye-hand coordination, letter, shape and color recognition.
The Bluffton Schools will hold a district-wide open house on Monday evening, Sept. 26. The elementary school will be open from 6 - 7 p.m., the middle school from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., and the high school from 7 - 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.
Here's a Bluffton College choral group, with its director Russell Lantz, standing on the far right. We can't pinpoint an exact date for the photo, but we've identified a couple members of the choir.
It appears that Stan Bohn is standing on the right, just above Lantz. We also see Richard Boehr in the row below Stan (right side).
There's some other familiar faces, but we'll leave identifications open to Icon viewers. What's the name of the group and when was the photo taken?
The Beavers struggled against Alma College on Friday, Sept. 16, at Wittenberg, losing the first two sets, 25-12 and 25-14. They caught some momentum in the third set, but still fell short, losing 25-21. The setback left the Beavers 6-4 on the season, while Alma improved to 7-3.
By Bryan Kress
The banner read "Knock Out The Knights" and despite forcing 4 turnovers, Bluffton were the ones who ended up being knocked out.
Bluffton could not capitalize on any Crestview turnover, and gave up a total of 236 yards on the ground. That kind of play is a recipe for failure for any team that suits up.
