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June 9 chamber breakfast: Benefits and bylaws

Posted by Staff on June 5, 2023 - 9:21am

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting at 7:00 a.m. on Friday, June 9. The meeting will be held on the third floor of Town Hall, 154 N. Main St. 

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is the sponsor and McDonald's of Bluffton will be providing breakfast. Members are asked to RSVP to [email protected]

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Bluffton Midle School honor roll announced for 4th quarter 2022-2023

Posted by Staff on June 5, 2023 - 6:15am

Bluffton Middle School has announced the following 4th Quarter Honor Roll for 2022-2023.

All “A” Honor Roll

6th Grade: 

Madison Coonfare, Jaegar Crawfis, Micah DeMarco, Jack Eiden, Max Fritsch, Leah Granger, Leah Hoffman, Morgan Martini, Elyse Montel, Siren Morris, Bracyn Oglesbee, Adalynn Rettig, Samantha Ruller, Taryn Shaw, Carter Steinmetz, Madelyn Sterrett, Tessa Tarplee, Camden Verb, Cole Weissling

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People
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Village of Bluffton meetings calendar, June 2023

Posted by Paula Scott on June 5, 2023 - 6:10am

The Village of Bluffton has announced the following meetings for the month of June 2023:

Wed., June 7 - Insurance Committee - noon

Monday, June 12 - Council Meeting - 7:00 p.m.

Monday, June 26 - Natural Gas Aggregation Public Hearings - 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Monday, June 26 - Council Meeting - 7:00 p.m.

All meetings are at the Town Hall, 154 N. Main St. unless otherwise noted. A council meeting packets archive is located at https://www.bluffton-ohio.com/council/ 2020 to present (scroll down for list). 

154 N. Main St. 419-358-2066

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Regional news
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Farm to table at Black Bird Farm

Posted by Paula Scott on June 5, 2023 - 6:00am

A Columbus Grove business that also serves as a wedding venue is expanding their offerings to include a special farm-to-table dinner series. Black Bird Farm, located at  20875 Road 14, is extending an invitation for five monthly dinners with select guest chefs. So you could actually call it a farm-to-farm opportunity.

The setting is a 113-year-old barn that has served as a venue for six years and is owned and operated by mother-daughter team Deb Rhodes of Columbus Grove and Nicki Bybee of Bluffton.

The meals will feature local produce, wineries and breweries, and musicians. Manager Kathy Soper calls it something new: a new place and new experience. The setting in a historical barn is  “Intimate and informal.”

On June 22, Cork and Knife Provisions will serve a “Strawberry Patch” dinner with bread and desserts from The Baking Company of Findlay and wine and beer pairings from Rose Acres and 1820 BrewWerks.

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Bluffton mayors lineup in Town Hall

Posted by Paula Scott on June 4, 2023 - 7:27am

This past week, Denny Morrison caught up on a project created for the Bluffton Sesquicentennial in 2011. He has added photographs of the most recent Bluffton mayors to a display on the second floor of Bluffton Town Hall. The display currently has 42 photographs and six emply ovals for future mayors.

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All that remains is a cemetery

Posted by Staff on June 4, 2023 - 7:05am

Ever hear of Cannonsburg, Hassan, Webster, Armorsville…

…the story of Bluffton’s neighboring ghost towns

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

A Bluffton News item from Oct. 29, 1896, tells that J.S. Jennings of Armorsville received a letter from his cousin, William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate for president. 

Not quite three years later a Bluffton News legal notice published July 10, 1899, proclaimed Armorsville as “absolutely extinct.” Gone without a trace. J.S. Jennings was once a real person living in a real place called Armorsville. 

You could find it just down the county line, north of Ada. Today it’s a ghost town. At the time of its death, or extinction, there existed no mourners, no visitation, no funeral and no final words of comfort. 

None of it remains today. Even its cemetery disappeared, to where, no one knows. The graves might still be in place under a farmer’s field.

Armorsville isn’t the only ghost town on our invisible horizon. There are other places, each literally wiped off the map, existing only as spirits that once represented visions, hopes and efforts of pioneers who created them. Scant details remain of these settlements, today mostly crossroads in the country. Most of what is known of these ghost towns is buried in the pages of 1880-era county history books. 

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Historical Bluffton
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