Business

Shannon Theatre released its May 6-12 movie schedule.

RIO (G) will show in 2D format evenings at 7 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30 p.m.

RIO will also show in 3D format Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. only. All 3D tickets are $6 each.

Also showing is Source Code, rated PG-13, at 9:30 p.m. each evening.

Ten Thousand Villages, 115 S. Main St., Bluffton, has a shipment of new items including ceramic teat light holders handcrafted from Vietnam.

Jeff Kantner of Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, announced the store's May bargains of the month recently.

These specials include:
o Kingsford charcoal briquets regularly $9.99 for only $5.99
o 2-package hose nozzles for only $9.97
o Miracle-Gro potting mix regularly $8.49 for only $5.99
(1 cubic foot mix)

Hardware hours are Mondays through Saturdays 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The telephone is 419-358-2866.

The IRS announced that more than 4.1 million New Ohioans filed their 2010 individual federal income tax returns electronically for the period ending April 28, 2011.
This represents a 10.4 percent increase over e-filed returns for the same period last year and exceeded by nearly 500,000 the total number of e-filed individual income tax returns by Ohioans for all of tax year 2009. Ohioans submitted more than 3.6 million e-filed returns for tax year 2009.

Visitors' guide cover

"Welcome to Bluffton. You'll find Bluffton offers many features of larger communities, but hasn't lost its small-town charm."

With that statement, Bluffton welcomes visitors to our community through the first-ever Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce visitors' guide.

Major distribution of the guides takes place this week. The guide, which is free, has been a project of the chamber for over one year. The guide is designed to cover the years 2011 and 2012. Twenty-five thousand copies were printed.

Stratton Greenhouses, 9915 E. Lincoln Highway, Bluffton, will host a spring open house Friday through Sunday, April 29-May 1.

A free tomato plant (1 per family) will be given away to customers. A free pair of gloves will be given away to persons making purchases of $100 or more.

Strattton's has new nursery stock arriving daily. The business has over 30,000 wave petunia plants in 209 carriers and hanging baskets.

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