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June 17 Festival of Wheels celebration

Posted by Paula Scott on June 15, 2022 - 5:48am

Gawkers and window shoppers are welcome at the June 17 Festival of Wheels hosted by the Bluffton LIons Club. Registration is 2-5:00 p.m. The festival ends with a car cruise down S. Main at 8:00 p.m.

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Patrol investigates June 13 airplane crash near Bluffton

Posted by Staff on June 14, 2022 - 11:11am

The Findlay Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating an injury airplane crash that occurred on June 13, 2022 at approximately 5:15 p.m. The crash occurred in a field south of the Bluffton Airport. 

Robert S. Searfoss, age 48, of New Bavaria Ohio, was flying a 1968Cessna 172 when he lost control of the air craft crashing into a field.The air craft struck nose first and flipped over. Mr. Searfoss suffered serious injuries and was flown to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Toledo Ohio. Mr. Searfoss was using his safety belt.

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Police/Fire/EMS
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EMS building to serve as cooling station

Ebenezer Mennonite Church open until 10 p.m.
Posted by Paula Scott on June 14, 2022 - 9:31am

UPDATE: With AEP Ohio crews working on multiple downed towers in the Bluffton area, service began to be restored to the area on the afternoon and evening of June 14.

Beginning 10:00 a.m. on June 14, a cooling station has been established at the EMS building behind the fire department on N. Main St. at Thurman.

Town Hall phone lines, including Police Department, are down. In an emergency call 911.

For non-emergency matters call the Allen County Sheriff's Office non-emergency line at 419-227-3535.

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Police/Fire/EMS
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Alice K. Hilderbrand worked for Ohio Northern

Posted by Staff on June 13, 2022 - 5:21pm

Alice Katherine (Jenkins) Hilderbrand, age 76 of Bluffton, previously of Ada and Upper Sandusky passed from this life to her heavenly home on June 7, 2022 at the Willow Ridge nursing facility in Bluffton where she had lived for the past seven years.

Alice Kay or A-K as she was known was born Nov. 21, 1945 in Buckhannon, WV and was the only child of the late Rev. William H. and Mary (Roberts) Jenkins. With her father being a minister of the United Methodist Church the family lived in several places where he pastored.

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Obituaries
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Community meal in Pandora on June 29

Posted by Staff on June 13, 2022 - 3:08pm

The Pandora United Methodist Church will be hosting a free Community Meal from 5:00-6:30 p.m. on June 29 at 108 E. Washington St, Pandora.

The menu is tacos, refried beans, rice, applesauce and muffins. The meal is dine in or take out.

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Worship
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Insurance committee meets 6:30 p.m. June 13

Posted by Staff on June 13, 2022 - 2:58pm

The Village of Bluffton has announced that the Insurance Committee will meet:

  • Monday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall

 

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Public Meetings
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