The Bluffton School Board will meet at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14 for a re-organizational and regular meeting.
The meeting agenda is HERE.
The board, which is made up of Alice Basinger, Brad Dailey, Roni Kaufman, Wes Klinger and Jeremy Scoles, will elect officers and establish a calendar, among other re-organizational items.
During the regular meeting, the board invites the involvement of visitors and will be asked to approve agreements with:
- Ohio Department of Administrative Cooperative Purchase Program
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio has kicked off the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie season, "a time when Girl Scouts everywhere build their entrepreneurial skills as they find new and inventive ways to sell cookies, unboxing brighter futures for themselves."
Girl Scout Cookie season runs through March 16. Watch for girls taking orders this month, and visit gswo.org/findcookies/ to sign up for notifications. Cookie booths begin February 14.
At 6:00 p.m. on January 23 Ron Headings will do a demonstration at Ten Thousand Villages of Bluffton on how he twists wire into roots and branches and attaches it to a base material to make a tree sculpture.
Headings started making wire trees as a teenager in Kansas, inspired by his love of horticulture and the coaching of a local county extension agent. “These trees are like people, the forest like humanity,” writes Ron. “They come in an infinite number of colors, shapes, and sizes, each one beautiful in its own way. The trees, like people, are shaped by their genetic structure and by the environment in which they live.”
Headings’ wire trees will also be on display at Ten Thousand Villages until January 31. Headings' business gives back to a cause that he cares about. For every tree sold, he donates money to plant a real tree somewhere in the world.
Effective January 20, Blanchard Valley Obstetrics & Gynecology, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, will relocate its EasternWoods Women’s Health office to 1917 South Main Street in Findlay.
The following providers associated with the move include Lorie Thomas-Schultz, DO, Aubrey Marcum, PA-C, Jodi Bollenbacher, PA-C, and Sarah Weihrauch, PA-C. The practice phone number will remain 419-425-8131.
BLUFFTON – The Bluffton High School boys basketball team used a huge first half to thrash visiting non-conference foe Carey 77-36 on January 11.
The Pirates improved to 9-2 overall with the lopsided victory. Carey fell to 3-8 after the defeat.
Guard Marek Donaldson topped a balanced Bluffton attack with 15 points. Blake Sommers scored 14, and Kain Wright added 13 markers.
Seniors Landen Worcester and Bean Ginther each netted nine points, while classmate Terron Boblitt added eight.
Bluffton led 22-2 after the first period, and built an insurmountable 45-6 margin at halftime. The Pirates won the second half, 32-30.
Donaldson scored nine first-period points and Sommers nailed two triples to shoot the Pirates to a 20-point lead. Worcester tallied seven markers in the second stanza, while Boblitt added five as they ballooned the lead to 39.
