Bluffton Pirates girls' JVsoccer team posted a win versus Coldwater JV with a score of Bluffton 2 and Coldwater 1. The game was at Coldwater on Aug. 22.
Marge Piercy, a poet and novelist whose 1991 book, “He, She and It” was this year’s summer reading for first-year Bluffton University students, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Sept. 1, as Bluffton welcomes the class of 2019 at its annual opening convocation.
With faculty in regalia looking on, about 240 new first-year and transfer students will be introduced during the ceremony, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.
Two ducks took advantage of the final day of the season for the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool yesterday. The pair landed in the pool area without paying, waddled over to one side, dived in, swam to the other side, got out and flew off. (Mary Pannabecker Steiner photo).
Pages of Piety, an exhibit of rare books reflecting the Swiss Mennonite spiritual heritage, is part of the Sunday Aug. 30, events celebrating the 175th anniversary of the founding of the first Mennonite church in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement.
Curated by Carrie Phillips, the exhibit is open to the public at Ebenezer Mennonite Church on Sunday from noon to 7 p.m.
