By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Bluffton baseball team lost 16-1 to Miller City Friday evening in non-conference action.
Youthful Bluffton dropped to 0-11 with the defeat. MC improved its record to 8-2 with the victory.
The Pirates scored their lone run in the bottom of the first, but MC had already tallied four runs. They added five runs in each of the third and fourth frames, plus two more in the fifth.
MC banged out four triples and three doubles among their 15 hits in the run-rule shortened, five-inning game.
It’s contract night at the Bluffton school board’s April meeting tonight.
The board will act on 16 certified contacts, 13 classified contracts, 5 extended service contracts and 36 supplementary contracts for the 2021-22 school year.
All contracts are listed in the board’s agenda attached to this story. In addition, certified contracts are posted below this story.
Several other actions in preparation for next year’s school year are also part of the agenda. The board will also set school fees for elementary, middle school and high school classes.
Former Bluffton resident Jedd A. Emans, 57, of Lima, died Saturday, April 17, 2021, surrounded by his family at his residence. He was born in Bluffton on Dec. 21, 1963, to David and Karen Emans, who survive in Pandora.
Jedd graduated in 1982 from Pandora-Gilboa High School and in 1986 from Bowling Green State University, College of Business.
Jedd went on to hold an accomplished and successful career in the tire industry.
By Amelia Alexander
Lately I’ve been feeling like an impostor and a failure. The other day, I was being incredibly negative and one of my friends kindly pointed out that I should be all about the growth mindset, considering I have written an entire article about it.
I was feeling embarrassed because he was completely correct. I was being a hypocrite, and I felt very disconnected from the “good writer” people have told me that I am.
I’ve been struggling to write, and the feeling of being stuck has seeped its way into other aspects of my life.
Bluffton University to host 53rd annual student juried exhibition virtually
The Bluffton University art department will present its 53rd Juried Student Exhibition from Tuesday, April 20, to Sunday, May 9, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibition is open to students, faculty and staff. The public can view the work virtually atwww.bluffton.edu/artgallery starting Sunday, April 25.
According to accounts in early issues of the Bluffton News, on Aug. 22, 1898, Bluffton’s council granted John Amstutz the right to construct a telephone and telegraph "plant" in Bluffton.
Amstutz was granted this free of charge, and also granted the use of all but a few of the posts and poles used in operating the town’s new light system.
The telephone rates were to be uniform, not exceeding $30 per year for business houses, firms and offices, nor $18 per year for private residences.
Norman J. Rex, 86, passed away on Friday, April 16, 2021 at 2:55 p.m. at the Memorial Hospital, Marysville.
He was born on June 27, 1934, in Lima, Ohio, to the late Dick O. and Margaret (Johnston) Rex. On Oct. 7, 1956, Norman married Kay Maxson and she survives in Ada. They were coming up on their 65th wedding anniversary.
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