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Pirate girls soccer falls to Columbus Grove in district final

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON __ The Bluffton High School girls soccer team lost 4-2 to Northwest Conference rival Columbus Grove on a pair of late goals in Div. V district final action at Steinmetz Field on Thursday, October 24.  

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The Road Not Taken: Do OTC supplements help lower cholesterol?

By Alli Meinert, Student Pharmacist and Karen Kier, Pharmacist
On behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

Robert Frost’s 20-line narrative poem The Road Not Taken was published in the August 1915 issue of Atlantic Monthly. He released a collection of his poetry in 1916 titled Mountain Interval. In the poem, there are two equal paths covered in leaves and one must decide their path.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has two paths for approving an over the counter (OTC) supplement. Is there a difference? ▶︎

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Manford ‘Manny’ E. Robinson, Jr. was an entrepreneur

Manford ‘Manny’ E. Robinson, Jr., 96, of Granger, IN and formerly of Bluffton, Ohio passed away on October 19, 2024 at Village of Arbor Wood in Granger. He was born in Marshall, IL to the late Manford E. and Sadie Jane (Darkis) Robinson. He attended school at Terre Haute, Indiana. Went from Terre Haute, Indiana to South Bend, Indiana. In Jan. 1949 he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He married Alice Hittle on October 2, 1949.

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Pandora- Gilboa Schools crown homecoming king and queen

P--G Homecoming king and queen, Andrew Miller and Luciana Hovest

On Friday, October 18, the Pandora-Gilboa schools crowned Andrew Miller and Luciana Hovest as 2024 Homecoming King and Queen. The homecoming court is pictured below.

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Summary of October 2024 Bluffton School Board meeting

Olympian Bassitt visits students, emergency repair made on boiler

By Betsi Werling

The October 21 meeting of the Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Board of Education followed the attached agenda.

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After close to 15 years of driving for the district, Jay Stratton will retire as a school bus driver. With this change, Dan Lee will take over Stratton’s route. 

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Fall Harvest Party at Bridenbaugh School

PHOTO from https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=187192

1:00-4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 2, corner of Road 6 and M6

The 2024 Fall Harvest Party at the Bridenbaugh one-room schoolhouse will feature a presentation by Riley Township resident Paul Nussbaum on a solo canoe trip fro Ottawa to Lake Erie.

This past June Nussbaum completed a bucket-list solo canoe trip, during which he paddled from Ottawa to Lake Erie via the Blanchard, Auglaize and Maumee rivers. He will also be sharing stories from his 20 wilderness canoe trips taken since 1979 in six different Canadian provinces.

Bridenbaugh Schoolhouse is located at the corner of Road 6 and M6, just north of Pandora. This event is free and open to the public. If you have questions, call Dale Bridenbaugh at 419-235-1115 or 419-384-3374. ◾️

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