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March showcases for Lima Area Youth Orchestra

The Lima Area Youth Orchestra will present two concerts this March under the direction of Joseph MacBenn and assistant director Tawnie Keen.

Students will observe their peers on the stage of the Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center for the Annual Children’s Concert on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

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BEVS Winter 2024 Newsletter sampler

By Paula Pyzik Scott

The Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Newsletter will be in the mail for area residents, but it’s also attached in its entirety HERE. For your convenience, here’s a sampling from the four page update.

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PHOTO Spring forward time

Clocks move ahead one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10, 2024. We lose an hour now but gain daylight in the evenings. We'll fall back on the first Sunday in November. Love it or hate it, it's time for a change.

P-G boys basketball upsets Delphos St. J for District Championship

By Matt M. Stutz

Next stop, Regionals. In front of a near capacity crowd, the #2 seeded Pandora-Gilboa boys basketball team pulled off the upset of #1 Delphos St. John’s in convincing fashion, to claim the Northwest 2 District Championship at the Elida Fieldhouse by a final of 56-43.  This is the third district title in school history for the P-G boys (1999, 2018). A few of the stars on this year’s team were young ballboys for the State Final Four team in 2018. 

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Weekend Doctor: Considering a vasectomy?

By Joshua Ebel, MD
Urology, Blanchard Valley Urology Associates

March has arrived. For many men, this is a time to take it easy and enjoy watching your favorite (or not-so-favorite) college basketball team compete in March Madness.

For others, it’s your last break before a busy spring of outdoor work around the yard or in the fields. For these reasons, March has often also been considered the perfect time to think about a vasectomy. ESPN has even covered the trend of men scheduling vasectomies in March, and local trends reflect this as well. Some clinics even report a 50% increase in vasectomies through March. 

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Noon Book Group to read The Art Thief

The Bluffton Public Library Noon Book Group will read The Art Thief by Michael Finkel for the Wednesday, April 3 discussion.

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