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New program offers classes for non-traditional students

Posted by Paula Scott on August 3, 2023 - 6:00am

Steiner and Naylor lead September classes at First Mennonite

J.P. Schumacher has organized a new series of courses to give individuals who would like to continue learning past the traditional student age. Continued Learning Elder Organization (C.L.E.O.) will provide four weekly courses beginning Monday, September 11 at First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson.

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Fun and dodgeball games

Posted by Paula Scott on August 3, 2023 - 6:00am

A taller--but smaller in number--team of Village of Bluffton employees accepted a dodgeball challenge by day campers at Bluffton Family Recreation-YMCA on August 2. The competition was fun, fierce and vocal. 

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Margaret “Peggy” J. Hursey worked for the Columbus Grove Fraternal Order of the Eagles

Posted by Staff on August 2, 2023 - 8:20pm

Margaret “Peggy” J. Hursey, 94, passed away August 1, 2023, at 2:54 p.m, at Putnam Heritage Assisted Living.

Margaret was born July 11, 1929 in Bluffton, to Frederic and Eva (Wiess) Martin who preceded her in death. On December 18, 1949 she married Robert Hursey who preceded her in death on January 2, 2006. 

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August 4-6 is Ohio Tax-Free Holiday for school shopping

Posted by Paula Scott on August 2, 2023 - 9:51am

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Bluffton Schools supply lists provided below

This weekend, August 4-6, is the annual Ohio Tax-Free Holiday for specified school-related items. The window of opportunity is from Friday at 12:00 a.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

During the holiday, the following items are exempt from sales and use tax:

  • An item of clothing priced at $75 or less
  • An item of school supplies priced at $20 or less; and
  • An item of school instructional material priced at $20 or less.

Items used in a trade or business are not exempt under the sales tax holiday.

For more information regarding the sales tax holiday, visit the Ohio Department of Taxation's Sales Tax Holiday web page HERE

Qualified items sold to consumers by mail, telephone, e-mail, or Internet qualify for the exemption if you order and pays for the item and the retailer accepts the order during the exemption period for immediate shipment, even if delivery is made after the exemption period. 

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90th anniversary of Dillinger robbery recalled on Bluffton History Day, Aug. 12

Posted by Staff on August 2, 2023 - 7:40am

Family members of eye witnesses to the Dillinger robbery will participate

Bluffton, Ohio will turn back the clock to 1933 on its first-ever Bluffton History Day, Saturday, August 12, recalling the 90th anniversary of the Dillinger gang bank robbery in Bluffton. In 1934, Dillinger was declared Public Enemy #1.

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First National Bank to open second Lima location in 2024

Posted by Staff on August 2, 2023 - 7:17am

PANDORA—First National Bank of Pandora has announced the future site of its second location in Lima at 1991 Bellefontaine Road, on Lima’s east side near the intersection of State Route 117 and Greely Chapel Road.

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