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Busy June for Bluffton Lions Club

Posted by Staff on June 26, 2023 - 7:40am

The Bluffton Lions Club board will hold a planning meeting on July 11 and the July club meeting is canceled while the club reorganizes following the death of president Jim Bemiller. The club notes that Bemiller had been active with Lions for 33 years. 

On June 1, eight Bluffton Lions served a community meal at the Senior Citizens Center. Seventy-two meals were served and donations totalling $167 were collected, which will be donated to the Food Pantry.

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Business
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Back-to-back public meetings on Bluffton natural gas aggregation

Posted by Paula Scott on June 26, 2023 - 7:10am

Prior to the June 26 regular council meeting, the Village of Bluffton will hold Natural Gas Aggregation Public Hearings at 6 and 6:30 p.m. at Bluffton Town Hall.

The public hearings are an opportunity for residents to address council on the topic of natural gas aggregation. 

Aggregation was approved by Bluffton voters in the May 2 election with 279 yes votes and 39 no votes to the following:

Proposed (Resolution) Gas Aggregation Village of Bluffton A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage Shall the Village of Bluffton have the authority to aggregate the retail natural gas loads located in the Village of Bluffton, and for that purpose, enter into service agreements to facilitate for those loads the sale and purchase of natural gas, such aggregation to occur automatically except where any person elects to opt out?

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Public Meetings
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SR 103 near SR 235 to close for culvert replacement

Posted by Paula Scott on June 25, 2023 - 8:17pm

State Route 103 just west of State Route 235, will close on Monday, June 26, for approximately five days for a culvert replacement. The ODOT detour will be I-75 back to SR 235 (see map).

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Tornado Watch on June 25

Posted by Paula Scott on June 25, 2023 - 1:55pm

TORNADO WATCH for Allen County is in effect until 8:00 p.m.

Areas to the south and east have an alert issued through 11:00 p.m. For updated information, visit www.weather.gov/

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St. John’s UCC celebrates 150th Anniversary with street fair

Posted by Staff on June 25, 2023 - 7:08am

St. John’s United Church of Christ, 223 West College Ave., is inviting the community to its 150th anniversary Street Fair on  Saturday, August 12 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. The street fair will take place on West College  Avenue between S. Lawn and S. Jackson, right next to the Church. Featuring food, entertainment, kids’ activities, crafts, games and historical displays, there will be  something for everyone to enjoy.

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Worship
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Bluffton brush with history

Posted by Paula Scott on June 25, 2023 - 6:00am

In 1943 a Bluffton man sat beside General Pershing in a bus

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

Spoiler alert – You’d better read this entire feature to the very end.

The longest-running column in the Bluffton News titled “Mainly Personal,” ran weekly from the very early 1940s to the late 1960s.

Next to sports and obituaries, it was the most watched-for column in the paper. Ted Biery created it, Milt Edwards continued it and Charles Hilty kept it going.

What was it? Let’s put it this way–It was 80 years ahead of Twitter, TikTok and any social media conception imaginable. It included several very short pieces on Bluffton residents and former residents, basically being themselves.

At the bottom of this story is a 1943 sample of one of the columns.

Here is a Bluffton brush with history, posted in the April 8, 1943, Bluffton News Mainly Personal column.

Meeting an internationally famous general most unexpectedly was the experience last week of Willard Lee, residing northwest of town, while on a bus between Toledo and Detroit.

Lee took a seat in the bus beside an elderly looking gentlemen and the two struck up a conversation touching on such topics as the weather, crops and the war.

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Historical Bluffton
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