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July 3: Classified ads update

Posted by Staff on July 3, 2024 - 12:48pm

See our Classifieds page for ads and ad rates

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HELP WANTED Special Event reporters

NOTICE July 6 Board of Education meeting

HELP WANTED Truck Driver at Diamond Manufacturing

HELP WANTED CPA firm seeks FT administrative assistant

NOTICE Village of Bluffton annual budget hearing, July 8

HELP WANTED PT Custodian at First Mennonite

EVENTS Tai Chi demonstration on Vine St., July 13

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Mazza Museum Hosts 30th summer conference, July 15-17

Posted by Staff on July 3, 2024 - 12:42pm

Area teachers, librarians, and book lovers are invited to the University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum for its 30th annual Summer Conference Monday to Wednesday, July 15 to 17. 

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School Board schedules hiring session for July 6

Posted by Staff on July 3, 2024 - 9:08am

The Bluffton Exempted Village Board of Education has scheduled a Special Board Meeting for Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. in the superintendent's office to hire personnel.

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Summer Read makes me feel fine

Posted by Paula Scott on July 3, 2024 - 8:04am

"Adventure begins at your library" is the official motto of the 2024 Summer Read program at Bluffton Public Library. Substitute "read" for "breeze" in Seals & Crofts 1972 chart topper and you have an unofficial program theme song. Check out the library's calendar of events HERE.

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Autism rock-painting event July 13

Posted by Staff on July 3, 2024 - 7:28am

The Autism Life Center will host its sixth annual Autism "Rocks!" event Saturday, July 13, from 1-3 p.m. at the Ottawa Metro Park in the Wyandot Shelter house in Lima on Ada Road.

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Volunteers are the backbone of Bluffton Fire Department

Posted by Paula Scott on July 3, 2024 - 7:19am

By Benji Bergstrand

When fighting a fire every minute counts. This is something Bluffton Fire Chief Jon Kinn knows all too well. “An active fire can double in size every 5 minutes. A small ‘room and contents’ fire can turn into a full structure fire in no time if no one is there to fight it.” Kinn said.

 Thankfully Kinn and the Bluffton Volunteer Fire Department are there to fight fires in and around Bluffton, but they are being asked to do so in increasingly challenging conditions as volunteer numbers drop while service calls increase. 

The proposed levy that will be on the ballot in November would provide funding for equipment for the fire department if it passes but would not address the need for volunteers. “We saw a decline in volunteerism after Covid, but the call volume actually increased,” Kinn said. “That compounded pretty quickly.” 

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