Sports Policy: 2024-2025 Season when attending MS & HS sporting Events:
Due to safety concerns for our student body and spectators at our Boys and Girls basketball games, this is our [Bluffton Exempted Village Schools] sports policy:
Students in grades K-5 will need to be in a seat in the stands with an adult, parent or guardian.
Junior High students may sit at the top of the designated student section or in a seat in the stands.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce has issued this invitation: "It is time to vote for your favorite window displays and business decorations."
Go HERE to choose your favorite holiday decorations and click on the "Vote Here" button at the bottom. The page includes photos of entries by Randa Kinn.
DELPHOS – A rough second quarter cost the Bluffton High School girls basketball team in a 44-28 loss at Delphos Jefferson in the Pirate Northwest Conference opener Thursday, December 12.
Bluffton was outscored 27-15 over the middle quarters and fell to 3-3 and 0-1 in the NWC after the defeat.
The Pirates and Wildcats were tied 6-6 after the opening quarter. But Delphos Jeff broke the game open with a 13-4 second stanza to build a 19-10 lead at halftime.
DJ won the third period 14-11 to build a 33-21 margin heading to the final quarter. The Wildcats staved off any thoughts of a Pirate rally with an 11-7 fourth period to win by 16.
Delphos Jeff improved to 3-3 overall and 1-1 in NWC action with the decisive win.
Senior post Ayla Grandey scored a game-high 13 points for Bluffton. She canned five field goals and netted three of four foul shots.
Pirate junior Blair Utendorf and Macy Schaadt each tallied six points.
The Preschool, Pre-Kindergarten, and Kindergarten students of Trinity Lutheran School, Jenera, will share their service "To Bethlehem" on Wednesday, December 18 at 7 p.m. The children will sing and share the lesson of Mary and Joseph's trip to Bethlehem and the miraculous events that occurred to bring our Savior Jesus to earth.
Send December 2024-January 2021 church service schedules to [email protected].
The Bluffton Icon will provide a schedule of special December 2024 and January 2025 church services on our Classifieds page, including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day events.
Information and details may also be shared in our Worship section HERE.
From the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: On behalf of Sheriff Michael E. Heldman, we warmly invite you to celebrate his retirement after an extraordinary 52 years of service to Hancock County, including 28 years as Sheriff.
Sheriff Heldman holds the distinction of being the longest-serving Sheriff in Hancock County's history.
The celebration will be held on January 3 from 1:30-6:30 p.m. at Old Mill Stream Centre, 1017 E. Sandusky, Findlay. The event is free and open to the public.
The mobile clinic visit scheduled for Bluffton is canceled today, December 12, due to inclement weather.
The clinic's weather policy is that if school is delayed or canceled in Ada and/or the area of the scheduled mobile clinic visits, the mobile clinic is canceled.
If you have any questions, please call the pharmacy at 419-772-3784.
As of 8:00 a.m., there were seven opening for blood donations in the late afternoon for the 1:00-6:00 p.m., December 12 Red Cross blood drive at First Mennonite Church, 101 South Jackson St.
State Wildlife Officer Levi Farley, assigned to Paulding County, observed an angler throwing a cast net along the Auglaize River. The individual caught a crappie with the cast net and harvested the fish. Officer Farley contacted the individual and issued a misdemeanor summons for possessing a sport fish by means other than angling. The suspect paid $150 in fines and court costs.
