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By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School baseball team shut out local rival visiting Ada 9-0 at home in a Northwest Conference game Thursday evening, April 13.

Bluffton improved to 5-4 overall and 2-0 in the league after the win.  

Columbus Grove and Lincolnview are tied atop the league with the Pirates at 2-0.

By Cort Reynolds

The visiting Ada High School softball team beat local rival Bluffton 6-2 in a Northwest Conference contest Thursday evening, April 13.

The Pirate girls fell to 5-6 overall and 1-1 in the NWC with the loss.

The Ada girls record improved to 10-1 overall after the win. The Bulldogs are in first place in the NWC at 3-0 with the convincing victory, tied with perennial power Crestview. 

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School track and field team hosted a triangular meet with Ada and Riverdale Tuesday, April 11.

Bluffton freshman Aubrey Burkholder swept the girls 100 and 300-meter hurdle events. Brianna Tabler cleared the pole vault in first.

Pirate junior Luke Donaldson won the boys 400-meter run. Noah Bricker finished first in the high jump.

Top finishers: 

Payton Stephens ’22, a writing and communication and media double major from Lebanon, Ohio, was named the winner of Bluffton University’s annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest.

Stephens’ speech, “Finding Peace in Religious Conversations: The Free Exercise Clause and Public Schools,” was delivered to address issues of restraining religious conversations in schools.

The United Way of Greater Lima will hold its Rock N’ Roll Awards Celebration for the 2022 campaign beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25 at the OSU Lima Campus Cook Hall Gymnasium.

The event begins with live music from the Happy Jack Band, as well as pizza, wings and soft drinks provided by Westgate Lanes. Social networking will be from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. The awards celebration begins at 7:00 p.m.

The council packet can be viewed HERE.

Following routine matters that open all council meetings, the April 10 session saw Mayor Rich Johnson recognizie Logan Matthewson, who stood at the podium in full Eagle Scout regalia and requested politely that Council accept his project, a very impressive metal receptacle to be placed in Town Hall for the collection of worn American flags. This they did, unanimously, and thanked him for his time.

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