October 2022

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Tickets for this week’s (and beyond) high school soccer, volleyball, and cross country tournament games/meets must be purchased online at www.ohsaa.org/tickets 

No tickets will be sold at the gate.

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Rosemary Conley Powell, age 72, of Lima, passed away on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at the Lost Creek Care Center, Lima.

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Have you tried the new Icon crossword puzzle?
https://crosswordlabs.com/view/september-2022-blufftoniconcom

Here are the September stories that were referenced in the clues:

ACROSS

2. Second Friday _Chamber_ breakfast event / Chamber breakfast featured Allen County commissioners

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By Amy Rathbun
Birchaven Village

Neighbors helping neighbors is nothing new to our area. During a pandemic, it is easy to focus on keeping yourself and family members safe.

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By Cort Reynolds

DELPHOS--The Bluffton High School football team grabbed an early lead but lost to rival Delphos Jefferson 27-7 in a Northwest Conference competition on October 14.

The loss put Pirate playoff status in jeopardy and also ended any chance of sharing the conference crown. 

Bluffton fell to 5-4 overall and 4-2 in the league with the costly defeat. They will need a week 10 upset over visiting Columbus Grove to tie for second place in the NWC, and likely need that victory just to make the playoffs.

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Pirate boys place 3rd; Essinger is 2nd in girls race

By Cort Reynolds

Bluffton High School senior Landon Armstrong won the 59-runner male race to lead the Pirate boys cross country team to third at the six-team Northwest Conference title meet Saturday morning at Columbus Grove on October 15.

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In part 3 of his series, Fred Steiner offers an account from “The History of Hardin County, Ohio,” published by Warner, Beers and Co., in 1883. 

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

Most remarkable of all mounds in Ohio
The most remarkable of all mounds in the State was one in Hardin County, in which were found about three hundred skeletons. A doubt has, however, been expressed that these were all Mound Builders skeletons.

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The Allen County Board of Elections has issued reminders that in-person absentee early voting for the November 8 general election has begun.

Early Voting Hours at 204 N. Main Street, Lima, Ohio have the following schedule:

Oct 12-28 Weekdays Only 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Oct 31-Nov 4 Weekdays Only, Monday-Friday Extended Hours, 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Oct 29 Saturday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Nov 5 Saturday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Nov 6 Sunday, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Nov 7 Monday, 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

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The Board of Education for the Bluffton Exempted Village Schools will hold its regular meeting on Monday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. with the attached agenda. The board meets in the Elementary School media center.

Items on the agenda include:

  • Approval of minutes and reports
  • Involvement of visitors
  • Treasurer's transactions 
  • Contracts, assignments. Thirteen coaching contracts are on this month's agenda as well as eleven substitute teacher contracts and a substitute custodian.
  • Overnight trip. 8th grade Washington D.C., May 16-19
  • Administrative reports

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By Matt M. Stutz

The Pandora-Gilboa High School football team took advantage of four first half turnovers, flying ahead 14-0 in the first quarter, as they overwhelmed the Riverdale Falcons by a final of 55-7 in Blanchard Valley Conference football action.

The win clinches a playoff spot for P-G, currently ranked 9th in the Division VII, Region 26 playoff computer rankings with one week remaining. The top 16 teams advance to the playoffs, with the top 8 seeds hosting a first-round playoff game.

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