Bluffton's Farmers' Market offers lots of fall items, like pumpkins, for example. The market continues each Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Citizens National Bank parking lot on South Main Street. The final market of the season is Saturday, Oct. 29.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton University standout MacKenzie McFarlin (Ashland) has been named the Heartland Conference Player of the Week after pushing the Beavers to a perfect 2-0 mark with conference victories at rival Defiance on Wednesday and over Transylvania in the Sommer Center on Saturday afternoon.. It marks her fourth career HCAC Player of the Week honor, including her second of the season.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton University freshman JERRELL POINTDEXTER (Elkhart, Ind./Concord) has been named the Heartland Conference Special Teams Player of the Week following Bluffton's 66-22 win at Anderson on Saturday afternoon. He is the first Bluffton Special Teams Player of the Week since Jordan Watkins took home that honor following Bluffton's 2014 victory over Hanover!
Chris Keller, chief administrative officer of Bluffton Hospital, will update chamber members on progress of The Women’s Center at Bluffton Hospital at this week’s Bluffton chamber breakfast.
The breakfast is 7 a.m., Friday, Oct. 14, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall. The program is from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
Bluffton University's 2016 homecoming weekend is Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 15-16. Here's the weekend schedule.
Saturday, Oct. 15
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
ART EXHIBIT
"Silent Treatment" includes works by current Bluffton art faculty Andreas Baumgartner, Jim Fultz, T.R. Steiner and Philip Sugden • Grace Albrecht Gallery, Sauder Visual Arts Center
Bluffton High School's marching band history goes at 90 school years. The first band, according to the Bluffton High School yearbook, was organized in 1925-26.
Here's the band in 1930-31, wearing the first-ever uniforms of the band. This band placed second in the Northwestern Ohio Instrumental Eisteddof held at Ada.
Band competing at that event were Bowling Green, Ada, Fostoria, Lima Central and Bluffton. Fostoria's band won the contest.
The band members are identified by instrument they play, not in their standing order. Sidney Hauenstein directed the band.
LouAnn Osborne of Columbus Grove, 79, died Oct. 7, 2016. LouAnn was born June 8, 1937, in Lima, Ohio, to the late Edwin and Marcellina (Haselman) Palte. She married Donald Osborne who preceded her in death on Jan. 14, 2012.
Survivors include daughters Amy (Paul) Shoppell of Van Wert, and Anne Osborne of Columbus Grove; a son, Donald Osborne of Columbus Grove; a grandson, Joseph Shoppell; a granddaughter, Marcy Shoppell; a sister, Rita Plaugher of Harrod; a brother, William (Nancy) Palte, and a sister-in-law Doris Palte.
The Allen County Visionaries will hold their annual dinner on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Shawnee Country Club. The Visionaries is the private arm of Allen County’s economic development efforts. The nearly 100-member companies and individuals provide half the funding of the Allen Economic Development Group.
Dear Bluffton friends, neighbors, and business owners:
We have ODOT's eyes and ears right now. Please email Kirk Slusher at [email protected]. or call (419) 999-6804 (closed on Columbus Day) about the dangerous conditions at Main St. and College Ave.
Bluffton Public Library opens a new chapter in its history on Thursday with a polka party.
The library staff invites patrons to a polka party at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, in the lower level of the library.
Elaine Wehri, local realtor, auctioneer and accordion player, will keep the party moving. In addition to live music there will be food, games and lots of other activities.
The library asks persons planning to attend to register. Call the library at 419-358-5016 or visit the library at 145 S. Main St.
