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BEVS Summer 2024-2025 newsletter--here and in your mailbox

Posted by Staff on August 17, 2024 - 6:00am

The following Bluffton Exempted Village Schools newsletter for Summer 2024-2025 is appearing in hard copy in mailboxes across the district. It includes a letter from Superintendent Greg Denecker, financial information for the 2023-2024 general fund, permanent improvement projects, new additions to staff (including new elementary school principal Kori Bernal), event and no school dates and contact information.

News from the Superintendent
We are excited to get the 2024-2025 school year started as we   welcome over 1200 students into our district on the first day of school.  Our enrollment numbers continue to stay very consistent, which is a real tribute to our community and staff, as many schools in our region have lost enrollment.  

We are pleased to announce some great new staff members for this school year, and they are excited to become part of the Pirate family.  Allison King and Megan Morris will be new administrative assistants for the ‘24-‘25 school year, and Trystahn Eyerly will be a district technology assistant.  Deborah Schmidt will be a new custodian in our middle school.  New teachers in the middle school include

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Living in Bluffton
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Agenda for Aug. 19 Bluffton School Board meeting

Posted by Paula Scott on August 17, 2024 - 6:00am

The Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Board of Education will meet on Monday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Bluffton Elementary Media Center.

The attached agenda includes an opportunity for the involvement of visitors, a report of transfers from the general fund to acitivity accounts, contracts for staff and substitute teachers, a policy update regarding therapy dogs in school and administrative reports.

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Public Meetings
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Gearing siblings take home Junior Fair dairy goat awards

Posted by Paula Scott on August 17, 2024 - 6:00am

Bluffton High school seniors Maia Gearing and Leo Gearing, who are members of the Hancock County Gold Star 4-H club, competed on July 19 in the Ohio State Junior Fair dairy goat show.

Maia won 1st place in Senior Showmanship and 1st in class for Junior Nubian.

Leo won 3rd place in Senior Showmanship, 2nd place in class for Junior Nubian and 1st place in class for Senior Nubian over 3 years.

Leo and Maia also competed in the open class American Dairy Goat Association (ADGA) with Maia taking 4th for Junior Nubian and Leo taking 2nd for Junior Nubian. Leo won ADGA Reserve Grand Champion Junior Nubian.

The competition was held at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in the Voinovich Livestock and Trade Center Mezzanine. Dairy goat breeds included Alpine, American, Lamancha, Nigerian, Dwarf Nubian and Toggenburg.

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People
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Evelyn J. Conley worked at Ada VFW Post #9381

Posted by Staff on August 16, 2024 - 11:41am

Evelyn J. Conley, age 91, of Lexington, Kentucky, formerly of Ada, passed away on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at the Homestead Post Acute in Lexington, Kentucky. 

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Obituaries
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Bluffton Fire Department is a huge History Day hit

Posted by Staff on August 16, 2024 - 8:44am

Stay tuned for our photo story

By Paula Pyzik Scott

You turn on the tap and the water flows all day, every day. Is there a fire? You call 911 and the Bluffton Fire Department comes in mere minutes armed with high tech trucks and immense water power.

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Historical Bluffton
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Shannon takes bronze in World Masters heptathalon

Posted by Paula Scott on August 16, 2024 - 8:18am

As shared on Facebook, Bluffton's Janean Shannon (on right) is the bronze medalist in the women's heptathalon for the 2024 World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. What's a heptathalon? Long jump, high jump, javelin, shot put, 800 meters, 200 meters, 80 meter hurdles, 

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