By Cort Reynolds - photos from Bluffton Pirates Tweet
FINDLAY - The Bluffton boys track and field team finished a strong third at the 16-team Pat Wagner Liberty Benton Invitational Saturday.
Columbus Grove won the boys team title with 144.5 points, followed by host L-B (108.5) and Bluffton (68).
Senior Jon Schriner won the 400 meter dash to post the top Bluffton finish.
L-B captured the girls team crown with 146.5 points. The Pirate girls came in 11th with 23 points.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Bluffton girls softball team was seeded ninth at the 13-team Elida Div. IV district tournament drawing Sunday.
Ninth seed Bluffton (4-11) plays at sixth seed Leipsic (7-7) Monday, May 10 in first round action.
The Pirate girls beat the Vikings 5-1 April 30 but were ranked lower due to a lesser record. The winner will then play at second-seeded Lima Central Catholic Thursday, May 13.
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When this photo was taken, the Triplett Corp. was Bluffton's largest employer. Here are two photos of the plant located along Harmon Road, which is today owned by Diamond Manufacturing.
Several sections, including the front office no long exists.
The aeral view was taken in 1936. A closer look above the treetops reveals the English Lutheran church steeple and the Bluffton elementary belfry. The large smokestack in the center of the skyline in the 1911 Bluffton High School building,
Today, we take for granted that Bluffton has a hospital. Not every rural community, however, has one. What is the story behind how the hospital came into existence?
That story follows:
In February 1908 a stock company, incorporated for $20,000, was organized in Bluffton for the purpose of established a local sanitarium.
The home of Dr. J.J. Sutter, remodeled the previous year, was chosen for the sanitarium.
It was located on the northeastern corner of East College Avenue and Main Street, today the site of the Bluffton Public Library.
FROM ADA ICON - Erin Saal, associate renewable development staff member for Invenergy, updated Ada chamber members in late March on the Hardin Solar Development project in the McGuffey area.
“The project is a solar power generation facility of up to 300 megawatts (MW), targeted to begin operating in 2023," she said.
"Solar technology uses the sun to deliver energy and is now one of the lowest-cost energy sources available,” she said.
