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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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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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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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Trinity Lutheran School celebrates 75th anniversary 

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

Trinity Lutheran School, Jenera, celebrates 75 years with the 2023-2024 school year. The school was started in Jenera in the fall of 1948 in the church's basement. The first teacher was Mr. Wayne Wiechmann, assisted by Pastor Walter Voss. There were eight grades and kindergarten. 

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Worship
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