Manford ‘Manny’ E. Robinson, Jr., 96, of Granger, IN and formerly of Bluffton, Ohio passed away on October 19, 2024 at Village of Arbor Wood in Granger. He was born in Marshall, IL to the late Manford E. and Sadie Jane (Darkis) Robinson. He attended school at Terre Haute, Indiana. Went from Terre Haute, Indiana to South Bend, Indiana. In Jan. 1949 he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He married Alice Hittle on October 2, 1949.
On Friday, October 18, the Pandora-Gilboa schools crowned Andrew Miller and Luciana Hovest as 2024 Homecoming King and Queen. The homecoming court is pictured below.
Olympian Bassitt visits students, emergency repair made on boiler
By Betsi Werling
The October 21 meeting of the Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Board of Education followed the attached agenda.
PERSONNEL
After close to 15 years of driving for the district, Jay Stratton will retire as a school bus driver. With this change, Dan Lee will take over Stratton’s route.
1:00-4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 2, corner of Road 6 and M6
The 2024 Fall Harvest Party at the Bridenbaugh one-room schoolhouse will feature a presentation by Riley Township resident Paul Nussbaum on a solo canoe trip fro Ottawa to Lake Erie.
This past June Nussbaum completed a bucket-list solo canoe trip, during which he paddled from Ottawa to Lake Erie via the Blanchard, Auglaize and Maumee rivers. He will also be sharing stories from his 20 wilderness canoe trips taken since 1979 in six different Canadian provinces.
Bridenbaugh Schoolhouse is located at the corner of Road 6 and M6, just north of Pandora. This event is free and open to the public. If you have questions, call Dale Bridenbaugh at 419-235-1115 or 419-384-3374. ◾️
The Ohio Rail Development Commission is inviting stakeholders to participate in an update to the State of Ohio Rail Plan. The Ohio Rail Plan is required to be updated every four years to remain competitive for federal grant opportunities.
The work of local artist and pottery professor TR Steiner is now on display at Ten Thousand Villages, 115 S. Main St.
Born and raised in Northwest Ohio on the family farm, Steiner graduated from the University of Findlay, and later started a business called The Old Jalopy Pottery. Since 2016, TR has been the ceramics professor at Bluffton University. He has shown and sold his work at many exhibitions, art fairs, shops, and galleries, and conducts the annual Summer Mud Workshop at Bluffton University.
Steiner’s was awarded Ohio Designer Craftsmen “Best of” 2022 and 2023 by the Ohio Craft Museum and in 2023 was pictured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine. ▶︎
