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This year's bike event returns in person with the theme "Back in the saddle again!"

Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will Zoom on Friday morning (June 11) to the topic of July’s Ride to Remember, according to Paula Scott, chamber CEO.

Members may join the teleconference at 7:20 a.m. by phone or video link. RSVP to [email protected] to attend.

Ron Headings, the bike ride chair, will lead a discussion on this year’s ride, scheduled for Saturday, July 10.

This is the 7th year for the ride. Last year’s event was virtual, making this year’s appropriate ride theme “Back in the saddle again!”

So, you think you know Bluffton? Okay, where is this? Answer tomorrow.

Ohio National Guard will end its participation in the program in July

Ohio National Guard Major Gen. John Harris announced that he has directed July 2, as the end of all missions at all food banks across the state of Ohio.

National Guard troops have been working side by side with West Ohio Food Bank staff, partner agencies, and volunteers since March 25, 2020, all through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Statement from West Ohio Food Bank CEO Tommie Harner:

ACRTA will offer 5 stops each weekend starting Monday • 115 years ago the Western Ohio Railway offered electric interurban service here • later Greyhound serviced Bluffton until 1985

Allen County Regional Transportation Authority’s decision to bring five weekday bus routes to Bluffton starting on Monday, June 7, is not the first time this community has experience inter-city bus travel.

Click here for the story announcing this new service, which was posted yesterday on the Icon.

On Saturday, residents may see the bus working its route between 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., as it makes final preparations for service on begin next week.

Allen County Regional Transit Authority will provide 5 busses through Bluffton Mondays through Fridays

Allen County Regional Transit Authority (ACRTA) will begin servicing five buses a day from Lima to Bluffton with a return to Lima beginning Monday, June 7.

The five busses, stopping in several Bluffton locations, will service the community Mondays through Fridays. The busses will also stop in Beaverdam.

The bus timetable is below this story. Runs begin in Lima at 6:20 a.m., 8:20 a.m., 10:20 a.m., 2:20 p.m. and 4:20 p.m.

Prices are extremly afforable and the fare structure is posted at the bottom of the story.

It was the merry month of May

Despite two days registering 33 degree temperatures it was the merry month of May, weather-wise, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

The 33-degree days occurred on May 1 and May 10. The month’s high temperature was 89 in May 25.

May’s precipitation was 3.99 inches and the normal average May precipitation is 4.01 inches.

May’s average temperature was 59.4 degrees and the normal average May temperature is 60.5 degrees.

The daily weather summary is below.

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