By Marlena Ballinger

Let’s start with a little bit about yourself. Do you have family? Where do you live?
I do have a family. I have been married for 100 years--not quite, but a long time to my sweetheart, we have two children, three grandchildren and many bonuses who've just added on, who call us Mama, or Pops, and/or Grandma, and Pops. So we have a village.

"Wake the Dead" Harley riders visit for Dillinger reenactment 

By Paula Pyzik Scott / Photos by Mark Yoder

Fortunately, the August 1933 robbery of Bluffton’s Citizens National Bank isn’t the most notorious chapter in gangster John Dillinger’s career. The four men involved in the heist warned local shopkeepers to stay out of sight. Bullets struck several downtown buildings, but no one was injured. Other details of that day, including the involvement of 14 witnesses, have become part of Bluffton history and legend.

MEDIA RELEASE__The Swiss Community Historical Society will present Night at the Museum on Saturday, October 24 from 6:00-8:00  p.m. Meet historic characters from the Swiss Settlement as you tour Swiss Heritage Center exhibits. 

Guests will encounter several makerspaces in the museum where they can create a take-home craft.  Costumed docents will provide information as you tour the 1843 Schumacher Homestead by candlelight.  At the 1854 barn, you will hear pioneer stories around the fire.

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MEDIA RELEASE__On October 15, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced that Ohio will receive more than $200 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

FROM FACEBOOK__Learn about herbs and gardening with Marge Lafollette at the October 15 meeting of the Bluffton Garden Club.

The meeting will be held at the Bluffton Public LIbrary at 6:00 p.m.

MEDIA RELEASE__A mowed turfgrass lawn is being converted into a native prairie on the floodplain of the Little Riley Creek. Help throw down handfuls of seed to plant the prairie as a community, then watch it grow over the coming years.

By Karen Kier, Pharmacist
On behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University hosted its second annual Homecoming 5K and Family
Fun Walk on Oct. 2, 2026, as part of its Homecoming weekend celebrations. Results from the
5K are listed below.

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