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Alexandra Besecker on Hofstra dean's list

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 28, 2021 - 3:29pm

Alexandra Besecker of Bluffton was named to the fall dean's list of Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., where she attends. To be named ot the list a student must achieve a GPA of at least 3.5.

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Sam Luke scholarship recipient at U of Findlay

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2021 - 4:04pm

Sam Luke, Bluffton HS graduate, was awarded an endowed scholarship at the University of Findlay for the 2020-2021 academic year. He is recipient of the Marathon Petroleum Corporation ESOH Operating Scholarship.

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Police department achieves full compliance certification

Through Ohio Collaborative Law Enforcement Agency
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 26, 2021 - 4:36pm

Bluffton’s police department has achieved a certification of full compliance through the Ohio Collaborative Law Enforcement Agency, according to Ryan Burkholder, police chief.

• The certification demonstrations efforts of the department to engage in the community and be transparent in operations.

• It shows the department enacts sound procedures and trains officers in common sense policies.

• The goal of certification is to ensure the department delivers superior law enforcement services to community.

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You know someone on this honor roll

Bluffton middle school students for second quarter
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2021 - 1:09pm

Here's the Bluffton Middle School Honor Roll for the second quarter of the 2020-21 school year.
• Click here for the elementary honor roll 
• Click here for the high school honor roll

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BHS sophomores visit Apollo Career Center on Wednesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 22, 2021 - 2:04pm

Bluffton High School sophomores will be among more than 600 sophomores in Apollo Career Center’s 11-member district visiting Apollo during  411Blast, scheduled Jan. 25-28.

Bluffton students will visit from 9 to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 27/

The day exposes students to possibilities and paths available for their career and, or college success. Students choose two programs of interest and then spend one-half day visiting those labs, meeting the instructors and participating in fun, interactive demos and activities.

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Retired MHCO marketing director write book about growing up in the 1950s

Chapters compiled from her Findlay blog "Old and Slow and Turning White"
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 22, 2021 - 1:50pm

Barbara Lockard, retired marketing director for Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, has published a book “Chapel Veils, Cough Drops and Queen for a Day,” with a subtitle “Being a kid in the 1950’s.”

The Findlay resident’s weekly blog, launched in March 2020 “Old and Slow and Turning White,” met with favorable response among her Findlay friends, Mother of Mercy High School alums and other blog readers.

At the start of the “great quarantine” she writes that she decided her choices were to either go stark raving mad, or write about better, happier times. She chose the latter.

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