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ArtSpace/Lima is pleased to announce the award winners from the 71st Annual Spring Show:

Best of Show – Meg Nickerson, Cable, Ohio
First Place Award – Annie King, Bellefontaine, Ohio
Second Place Award – Michael Huffman, Lima, Ohio
Third Place Award – Anita Lehman, Bluffton, Ohio
Bruce Chesser Award – T.R. Steiner, Bluffton, Ohio
Farmer Family Award – Joshua Briem, Columbus, Ohio
Martha Gustad Award – Rebecca Boutin, Lima, Ohio
Meg Dickason Award – Kelly Massillo, Ada, Ohio
Director’s Award – Camden Courtney, Findlay, Ohio

Juror for the exhibit was artist Bryan Moss of Columbus, Ohio.

The exhibit will be on display until May 19 during the ArtSpace business hours:

Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00  a.m.-5:00 p.m.

All exhibits are free and open to the public.

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The Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main, has issued a comprehensive update for events and programs taking place during the month of April 2023:

Two new Beanstack Challenges are available starting April 1 - check out Spring Into Reading and a Poetry Month challenge for the month of April. New to Beanstack? Check it out at https://blufftonpubliclibrary.org/digital/beanstack/

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Do you know the way to www.AdaIcon.com? Here's an easy shortcut to news from our neighbors up SR 235 for the week of March 27-April 2:

Arab American theater highlighted in ONU festival

An Ada business since 1986, Carol Slane Florist is Business of the Year

ONU hosts April 1 National Robotic Football Tournament

Board of Education meeting includes BVC discussion and interim superintendent appointment

Student Carmen Mancuso interviews professor David Kosmyna

Watch for the Icon's headline swap on Sundays.

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Pirates home opener vs. Arcadia is 5 p.m. on April 4

By Cort Reynolds

CAREY–Bluffton High School lost to Carey 10-0 in a non-league softball bout Friday evening, March 31.

The Pirates dropped to 2-1 after suffering their first loss.

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A gallery of photos by Jamie Nygaard provides a track and field-level view of the March 28 home meet hosted by Bluffton High School at Bluffton University. The BHS Pirates competed against the Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan Raiders and the Lima Bath Wildcats. See Bluffton results HERE.

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Photo gallery by Jamie Nygaard on Facebook

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School boys track and field team won a three-team meet at the Bluffton University facility on Tuesday, March 28. Bath and Ben Logan also competed in the event.

Several Pirates posted first-place finishes at the meet (complete Bluffton results HERE.):

Senior Sam Derstine crossed the line first in the boys 800 meters (2:02.4). Classmate Eden Antrim came home first in the 1600 (4:51.2).

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