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Bluffton Fire Department is a huge History Day hit

Posted by Staff on August 16, 2024 - 8:44am

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By Paula Pyzik Scott

You turn on the tap and the water flows all day, every day. Is there a fire? You call 911 and the Bluffton Fire Department comes in mere minutes armed with high tech trucks and immense water power.

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Historical Bluffton
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Shannon takes bronze in World Masters heptathalon

Posted by Paula Scott on August 16, 2024 - 8:18am

As shared on Facebook, Bluffton's Janean Shannon (on right) is the bronze medalist in the women's heptathalon for the 2024 World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. What's a heptathalon? Long jump, high jump, javelin, shot put, 800 meters, 200 meters, 80 meter hurdles, 

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JAMPD board meets August 20

Posted by Staff on August 16, 2024 - 6:00am

The Board of Commissioners of the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District will hold their monthly Board meeting, on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 9:00 a.m. at the Park  Conference Room.

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Public Meetings
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Bluffton University welcome for class of 2028 includes "Becoming Rooted" speaker

Posted by Staff on August 16, 2024 - 6:00am

New students to be welcomed into the academic community at Bluffton University

Dr. Sarah Fedirka, associate professor of English and chair of English, philosophy and religious studies at University of Findlay, will be the featured speaker at 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, in Yoder Recital Hall as Bluffton University welcomes the class of 2028 during its Opening Convocation.

Fedirka will share “Becoming Rooted” and consider how we become rooted in community, history and ourselves. Fedirka will explore the mystery by which in letting go, we become more grounded.   

Fedirka received her graduate degrees from Arizona State University where she studied Anglo-American literary modernism. Fedirka has been at UF for 13 years and teaches a variety of courses, some of her favorites being American literature survey courses. Believing in the interconnectedness of all things, Fedirka deeply appreciates how words make meaning.  

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Bluffton University
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Maxine Hicks was a homemaker

Posted by Staff on August 15, 2024 - 2:03pm

Maxine Hicks, age 94, passed away on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at Bridge Hospice Care Center at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. 

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Obituaries
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Glory Days: Protein and aging

Posted by Staff on August 15, 2024 - 7:35am

By Ava Ehlinger, Student Pharmacist and Karen Kier, Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

Sometimes as we age, we look back at our younger years. In 1985, Bruce Springsteen released his song Glory Days, which talked about looking back. He recorded 21 studio albums and is affectionately known as “the Boss.” Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.  

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Health Services
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