NOTE: Bluffton congregations may send Easter services details to: [email protected]
Easter celebrations at St. John’s United Church of Christ begin with a 9 a.m. breakfast, which is prepared and served by the men of the congregation. There is no adult Sunday school on Easter morning.
At 10:30 a.m. the celebratory Easter worship service takes place and will include the singing of Easter hymns by the congregation and choir.
Bluffton Family Recreation recently completed its tournament for Session III of its indoor soccer leagues.
League champs are:
• Abcde FC - Adult Recreational League champs
• Logan's Irish Pub - Adult Competitive League champs
• Nester - High School champs
• U 15 - Bluffton Black
• U 10 - U 12 - Bluffton White
TEAMS PHOTOS FOLLOW - (no photo available for Logan's Irish Pub)
Are you considering selling your home and wondering about the best way for you to list it?
Or, are you interested in buying your first or next home, but want to make sure you have sound advice and know your options? First National Bank is partnering with Attorney Scott L. Basinger to present a Home Buying and Selling Workshop, Tuesday, April 25, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Bluffton town hall, 154 N. Main St.
Bluffton University’s Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center will host an open house to celebrate 30 years of promoting peace from 3-6 p.m. Thursday, April 20. A brief program of music and reflection will be held at 4 p.m. in the Honda Outdoor Sculpture Garden.
The event is free and open to the public.
The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center promotes the study of peace and justice, cultural understanding and nonviolent responses to conflict with an emphasis on these themes for children.
Photos at the bottom of this story show some of the steps involved in creating butterfly charms. The Bluffton Hospital commissioned Kat to create several dozen charms for Mother's Day in a special hospital donor's program.
Gallery 323, providing the community with locally created art, has reopened and offers works in several media by area artisans.
The gallery, at 323 N. Main St., Bluffton, is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursdays and Friday noon to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and by appointment.
This is one of the oldest existing photographs of a Bluffton school class. It is possibly two classes combined. We know that some of the students in the photo graduated in 1903.
Supposing those students were in the sixth grade when this photo was taken, that dates this photo to the 1896-97 school year.
Several of the members of the class of 1903 are very roughly identified.
The Icon spotted DOWDY22 in the Hirschy Hall parking lot on the Bluffton University campus. It's on a black Chrysler 300 from Van Wert County.
The car is owed by Daryl Dowdy (a bluffton alum) who played basketball for Bluffton College back in the late 80’s. His number was 22. He met his wife, Sandy, while attending the university and his youngest child (Justis Dowdy) is currently a sophomore (and is also playing basketball).
NEW CONCORD, Ohio - At the end of Day 1 at the All-Ohio Championship decathlon, Kyle Knezovich (Utica) was in 2nd place with a score of 3062 points.
Saturday's events were the 100 meters (11.77 seconds which is a PR), long jump (19-10.25), shot put (28-11), high jump (5-11.25 which is a PR) and 400 meters (52.15 which is a 3rd PR).
DELAWARE, Ohio - The Bluffton University men’s and women’s track and field teams made their annual trek to Ohio Wesleyan to take part in the Marv Frye Invitational on Saturday, April 8, 2017. While the Beavers claimed no individual event wins the meet saw so many quality performances it was a banner day nonetheless.
