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Bluffton teachers agree to freeze base salaries

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 10:31pm

Complete agenda is available as an attachment at the bottom of this story.

Bluffton teachers agreed to freeze their base salaries for three years. The action took place at the April Bluffton school board meeting on Monday. In addition, teachers agreed to not take step increases in 2011-12.

In March the Bluffton school administrators agreed to no pay raises in 2011-12.

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Public Meetings
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New location

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 10:01pm
New location

Jimmy Grose, manager of Bluffton's Cellular Central/Verizon store, takes a call. The store recently relocated to 142 E. Jefferson St.

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Cellular Central/Verizon store relocates to corner of Jefferson and Vance

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 5:57pm

Cellular Central, Inc./Verizon Wireless had a new home. The North Main Street business has relocated in a portion of the former Movie Gallery at 142 E. Jefferson St. The move took place last week.

The store is part of a 43-store chain in Ohio. Its home office is in Toledo. Jimmy Grose of Findlay is the store manager, serving in his third year in that position. Cellular Central had operated in Bluffton for the past six years.

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Business
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Rain, rain, go away

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 5:27pm

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. It's April and it's raining. Here's the weather summary for the past seven days from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Date High Low Precipitation

April 12 56 41
April 13 65 31
April 14 65 39
April 15 60 38 0.04
April 16 60 37 0.33
April 17 58 38 trace
April 18 47 37 0.10

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Regional news
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2011 facility stars announced from MHCO

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 5:20pm

Each year residents, families and others can recommend employees from Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio for their outstanding care and service they give.

This year MHCO received many nominations. Eight people were chosen from the organization to attend the "LeadingAge Ohio" regional award luncheon to be honored for their outstanding care.

Five were from Mennonite Memorial Home and three were from Maple Crest Senior Living Village.

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People
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Del Gratz receives Larry Jones award; Miller, Rowland, Luderman top senior athletes

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2011 - 5:11pm
Taking home honors from Tuesday^aEURTMs Athletics Awards Forum at Bluffton University were (left to right) Del Gratz, Kim Miller, Shauna Rowland and Rob Luderman.

Bluffton University presented three athletics awards to four recipients on April 19.

Sharing the Kathryn E. Little Award as the university's outstanding senior female athlete were basketball player Kim Miller of Delphos, Ohio, and volleyball player Shauna Rowland of Bucyrus, Ohio.

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Bluffton University
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