DELAWARE, Ohio - The Bluffton University baseball team rallied with three runs in the ninth for an 11-9 victory at Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Bluffton will take a 1-0 mark to Fort Myers, Fla., when the Beavers hit the field again on Sunday, March 4.
Five Bluffton Pirate wrestlers advanced to the OHSAA District Wrestling Meet after finishing in the top four of their individual weight classes at the Lima Central Catholic Sectional Meet. (more at www.blufftonpirates.com)
A game that started very well for the Bluffton boy’s basketball team slipped away in the third quarter and the deficit was too large to overcome. Paulding dealt Bluffton a 42-35 defeat in the OHSAA Sectional Tournament Tuesday evening to end the Pirate season at 10-13. The game was the final one for seniors Kaleb Jefferson, Dakota Bricker, Joel Piercefield and Cole Fruchey. (more at www.blufftonpirates.com)
The entire fitness class schedule is attached at the bottom in a printer-friendly format.
Bluffton Family Recreation fitness classes are in place for late winter and spring, according to Daniel Tinch, director. The new schedule started this week.
There are several new features and times of classes. One of the new classes covers Total-body Resistance Exercise (TRX).
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We keep hearing about common sense gun control. What is common sense gun control? Is it banning five to ten million AR-15 type?
The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates there are roughly five to ten million AR-15 rifles owned in the United States, a small share of the roughly 300 million firearms owned by Americans. If banned, what would happen to these guns? Does anybody believe that people would turn them in or sell to the government?
Tickets are on sale for the Friday, March 16, Bluffton Music Boosters ichicken barbecue and shrimp dinner.
Serving is in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium with musical performances in the middle school gymnasium beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Pre-sale tickets are $7.50 After March 11 tickets are $8 and are available in the middle school office until sold out.
The menu includes one-half chicken or seven pieces of shrimp, potato salad, applesauce, dinner roll and drink. Proceeds benefit the Bluffton Music Boosters.
Here's a photograph of Bluffton College students from Wayne County during the 1925-26 school year.
According to the college yearbook, the Ista, Wayne County represented the second large number of students by county who attended Bluffton that year. Allen County had the most studnts.
Like today, the club carried familiar Wayne County names including Badertscher, Smucker, Hostettler, Amstutz, Gerber and Miller.
