ANDERSON, Ind. - The Bluffton University baseball team suffered a pair of losses at the hands of the Anderson University Ravens to open HCAC play on Good Friday, March 25. The Beavers lost the opener, 7-1, before dropping the nightcap, 7-5. Bluffton fell to 5-10 on the season while Anderson improved to 5-9 on the year.
Ada Area Chamber of Commerce met the new guy in Ada earlier this month.
The new guy is a familiar Bluffton business owner: Tom Dotson.
Dotson and his wife, Sheena, this winter expanded their tire Bluffton business with an Ada location at 3032 State Route 309 (intersection of 309 and 235), south of Ada.
The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting of the Ada store took place on March 16. The event also included a tour of the facility for chamber members. The building a former carpet warehouse, includes a 40 by 80-foot addition that will service semis.
Celia Mae Blough, 93, of Bluffton died on March 24, 2016, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Celia was born on Dec. 15, 1922 on a farm in Wayne County, close to Dalton, Ohio. Her parents were Adam and Lydia (Sprunger) Amstutz. In June, 1946, she married Robert J. Blough, M.D., and he died July 22, 2004.
Celia attended grade school for eight years at the Sonnenberg School. She graduated from Dalton High School in 1940 and Bluffton College in 1945. During her husband’s medical internship in Lima, Ohio, she taught at Lima Bath Elementary School.
Interview by Sophia Marcum
With all the busy-ness of midterms, spring-break, and Easter holiday, we were lucky enough to get a hold of Sarah Schriner as she returned from a service immersion experience in Nicaragua. She graduated from Bluffton High School in 2014 and shares below what she’s been up to since then.
Where do you attend school now and what are you studying?
Franciscan University, studying social work.
Bluffton eighth grader Courtney McLaughlin's performance at Saturday's Division I boys' state finals basketball game got us to thinking.
In 2011 Kevin Gratz and his "Shirts and Pants" extra-curricular male choir of Bluffton High School boys also advanced to the state finals. That 15-member choir also performed the National Anthem.
The photo above shows the group minutes before walking out on the basketball court.
Bluffton middle school student, Courtney McLaughlin, apparently lacks stage fright.
She sang The National Anthem surrounded by over 14,000 persons prior to the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division I boys’ state final basketball contest in Columbus on March 19.
The performance was at the Schottenstein Center at The Ohio State University.
This wasn’t her first state tourney appearance. She also sang during the Division II semifinals last year. It doesn’t end there.
Celia Blough, 93 died March 24, 2016, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference recently announced the winter honorees of the HCAC All-Academic awards for the 2015-16 school year. Sixteen Bluffton University athletes were recognized for their efforts in the classroom.
Bluffton Area Ministerial Association (BAMA) invites the public to participate in its March 25 Good Friday Procession of the Cross. This year's walk begins at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church.
The route follows:
• St. Mary's Catholic Church at 11:30 a.m.
• First United Methodist
• First Mennonite
• St. John's United Church of Christ
• English Lutheran
• Bluffton Presbyterian at noon
