The following meetings are announced for the Village of Bluffton. All meetings will be in the Village’s Town Hall, unless otherwise noted.
• Streets, Alleys, Lights & Sidewalk Committee – Tuesday, 9/22 at 7 p.m.
• Personnel Committee – Wednesday, 9/23 at noon via Zoom.
• Council Meeting – Monday, 9/28 at 7 p.m.
Invitations to the Zoom meeting can be obtained by contacting Jesse Blackburn at [email protected].
Mornings with Mommy is a fun and easy way for parents to enjoy activities with children (ages 0-6 years) and meet other caregivers.
Dads, grandmas, grandpas and nannies are welcome, too. The educational play-dates begin on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 21 and 22, and will continue on the first and third Mondays with encore sessions on the following Tuesdays of each month from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 N. Main St., Jenera.
GROB’s apprenticeship team will host a live webinar from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2, for persons interested in learning more about GROB Systems and its apprenticeship program.
The webinar airs on MFG Day 2020 (Manufacturing Day 2020).
Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is getting ready for winter operations and has a hiring event to fill approximately 65 winter seasonal positions available across the region.
The local hiring event is Tuesday, Oct. 13, from noon to 4:30 p.m. at ODOT District 1 district office, 1885 N. McCullough Street, Lima.
Plowing snow is the primary job responsibility for winter seasonal positions, but employees may also be asked to perform other operational duties.
Bluffton officials working with ODOT planners viewed an artist's rendition of what State Route 103 might look like following a 2023 widening project.
- Monday's council packet is attached at the bottom of this story -
The bottom view show SR 103 near County Line Road. The top view shows the road as it approaches Wendy’s Restaurant.
Several observations include:
• a pedestrian path on the south side of the road. It will cross the road in the top view and will connect to the I-75 business district.
Bluffton and Richland Township residents have registered impressive responsive rates to the 2020 U.S. Census.
As of Sept. 13, according to the U.S. reports, the Village of Bluffton’s response rate is 81.3 percent. That places Bluffton as the 88th highest response of 928 cities and village in Ohio.
The village response is even more impressive when considering that the top village and city rate in Ohio is a response rate of 88.6 percent.
