The Bluffton Public Library will host the following events and activities during the week of March 31-April 5. For further details and dates, visit www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org/library-events/
Cory-Rawson Local Schools held its third annual Amazing Shake event on March 26, 2025. The program gives seventh grade students an opportunity to be authentically assessed on skills from their year-long Thrive class.
Thrive is based on the district's Portrait of a Hornet attributes of communication, relationship-building, critical thinking and resilience.
All seventh graders begin the day in the first round, the Gauntlet. Featuring 20 stations, students perform a variety of impromptu tasks including problem-solving, solving a customer service issue, responding to a rude restaurant server, making a medical appointment via phone and a variety of interviews. Volunteer community partners from a number of companies and organizations judge each station. MORE
Rev. Dr. Maxwell Kennel, director of Pandora Press and editor of the Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies Series, came to Bluffton University the week of March 24, 2025, for spring semester’s Spiritual Life Week. Kennel provided the Forum and Chapel messages and worked with students as they explored Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and the theme “Faith and Memory.”
“Memory is not merely an individual act,” said Kennel. “But a collective process, shaped by our social and political context.”
The Friends of Bluffton Public Library are hosting their annual Spring Tea and Silent Auction on Tuesday, May 6. The guest speaker will be local author Dave Essinger, who has published two novels.
The elegant, formal tea will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the library’s Richland Room on the lower level.
Tickets are $20 (cash or check) and will be sold at the library, 134 S. Main St., starting on Tuesday, April 1. The event has limited seating.
Essinger vividly remembers sheltering under school cafeteria tables for “fallout dills” in case of nuclear war, and has been more or less expecting the world to end ever since. His new post-apocalyptic novel This World and the Next is available from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in print and Amazon Kindle in ebook. MORE
Bluffton University will hold its annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest at 7:30 p.m. on April 10 in Yoder Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Participating students and their speeches MORE ▶︎
Provided by Allen County Health Department, March 28, 2025
A case of measles has been identified in an unvaccinated Allen County resident under the age of 18. Contacts of the individual have been notified by public health professionals with Allen County Public Health and other health departments in the area to assess their measles vaccination status, and to provide information regarding signs and symptoms of measles and appropriate quarantine measures.
Measles is very contagious. Children infected with measles can spread it to others, even before they have symptoms. The measles virus can live for up to two hours in the air after an infected person leaves the room. Nine out of 10 unvaccinated children who are exposed to measles will become infected. Symptoms may not occur for up to 21 days after exposure to an individual who has measles. MORE ▶︎
