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Pirate football grounds Rockets

Posted by Paula Scott on August 27, 2023 - 8:08am

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School football team defeated visiting local rival Pandora-Gilboa 28-21 Friday night in a non-league battle at Harmon Field.

The hard-fought win lifted the Pirate record to 2-0, while P-G dropped to 1-1 with the loss.

Just 15 seconds into the game, Bluffton struck paydirt. 

Garret Bogart connected with Braeden Jordan on a short pass to the right. Jordan broke a tackle around the 35-yard line and sprinted untouched the rest of the way 67 yards to the end zone.

Inside the Pirate five, P-G’s Ben Burkholder ran left for three yards and was stuck hard by Jordan at the goal line. The big hit jarred the ball loose, but the runner was ruled to have just crossed the plane to score and tie it 7-7.

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Sports
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Play time

Posted by Paula Scott on August 27, 2023 - 8:03am

The Bluffton High School Marching Band performs on the video of the Bluffton vs. Pandora-Gilboa football game at https://www.youtube.com/live/NkLfGEVSqzQ?si=_rjfkNzH4N432T0Q  / PHOTO by Marvin Foster

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Bluffton residents brush with history c. 1940s

Posted by Paula Scott on August 27, 2023 - 6:00am

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton.

It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those accounts follow Betty’s. The accounts in this feature are from the mid-1940s. 

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Historical Bluffton
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Letter: Where are these Dillinger era furnishings?

Posted by Paula Scott on August 27, 2023 - 6:00am

I enjoyed reading of the recent Dillinger robbery reenactment. I am reading through the old Bluffton News online and found this about the auction of some furnishings from the Citizens Bank. Wonder where these furnishings are now that probably were in the bank at the time of the robbery.

Tom Olson
Plain City, OH

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Letters
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Schnipke retires after 34 years with Board of Developmental Disabilities

Posted by Paula Scott on August 27, 2023 - 6:00am

After a 34-year career in the field of developmental disabilities, with the past eight as Superintendent, Theresa Schnipke has announced her retirement from the Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities. 

Board President Tom Fleming commented, "Superintendent Schnipke has led the County Board through some of the most challenging times in the history of the Board. First, through many changes as a result of federal & state mandates, then the COVID pandemic and followed by a major workforce shortage in the field of DD. Through it all she kept the Allen County Board of DD in a positive position. Superintendent Schnipke has always kept the people that the County Board serves as her number one priority. I thank her for her dedicated service.”

On August 22 the Board will officially begin the director search process with the Ohio Association of County Boards. The board will select a person to work alongside the Superintendent at the beginning of 2024 and take the helm on July 1. This is the same transition process the Board is using to replace the long-term Director of Business, Martha Nance, who is retiring on April 3. The Business Manager successor is in place.

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People
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Highway construction update: Week of Aug. 28

Posted by Staff on August 27, 2023 - 6:00am

The following construction projects are anticipated to affect highways in Hancock County during the week of August 28. All outlined work is weather permitting.

  • State Route 103/Jefferson Street between County Line Road and Commerce Lane in the village of Bluffton will have lane restrictions and shoulder work beginning Monday, Aug. 14 for approximately 120 days for construction of a shared-use path. The work includes storm improvements, a sidewalk extension, lighting, and other roadway safety improvements. 
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Regional news
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