Christmas is over. Want to earn a little cash to pay off some bills? Remember that The Icon's classified ads are free (except for vehicles and properties for sale). We're not suggesting you unload any white elephant Christmas gifts. But, we won't tell if you do.

Icon classifieds have the extra punch of allowing persons to submit jpg photos at no charge.

Here's an edited version of a 15-minute Christmas discussion with Fred, Mary, Lindsay and Anne Steiner about Christmases past.

Icon viewers have noticed several changes to the Icon home page this week. The Icon staff is still working on these changes and by the first of January, a new and improved Icon will be serving viewers with much more coverage.

We'll explain these new home page features soon, but first here's information on our new community directory unveiled today (Dec. 25). Viewers who click "Ad Index" on the top bar on the home page now additional access to several community features.

The Icon spotted this plate on the roof top of a house on Grove Street about five minutes past midnight on Dec. 25.

It's Dec. 25. You're still in need of a last-minute Christmas present that's so inexpensive that it makes you wonder if the original Bush tax cuts will ever trickle down and heal your check book.

Fear not. We bring you good tidings of great joy. Here's a Christmas present you may give to anyone who has even the most remote connection to Bluffton, Ohio.

Give someone The Bluffton Icon as a home page! Here's how:

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Here's former Bluffton sixth grade teacher, Bob Stratton, with his daughter, Barb. Paul Diller took this color slide photo, we are guessing in the late 1950s. Any Icon Viewer with more information, please contact us. We'd love to hear from Barb, too. (From the Jim Diller collection)