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Friends of the Library sponsor tea with Jane Austen

The Friends of the Library invite persons to spend an evening with Jane Austen and enjoy a tea that will include a light meal. Austen, author of "Pride and Prejudice," "Sense and Sensibility and other novels, is coming to the Richland Room in the Bluffton Library at 5:45 p.m., April 29. Christie Weininger Raber, director of the Wood County Historical Center and Museum, will portray Jane.

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Want a light show in your yard this holiday season? If so, help is on the way!

It's the first week of spring, but let's think about Christmas for a moment.

You've watched the Gift of Giving light show extravaganza set up across from Harmon Field for the past two holiday seasons. Ropp Triplett, the mastermind behind the project, thinks there could be several more of those light shows, but on smaller scales, scattered around Bluffton for the 2010 holiday season.

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Derek Dukes bowls one shy of you-know-what

Belles & Beaux
Scores bowled on: Mar.14
Men's High Game

John Dailey 280
Nick Burden 237
Jon Burden 237
Dan Dailey 229

Women's High Game

Steph Moore 223
Steph Moore 202
Ruth Everett 190
Deb Green 183

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Adams Bridge on a warm afternoon

Adams Bridge on a warm afternoon

Isn't it amazing what one day of warm weather and sunshine does to the human spirit. Friday brought out the sunbathers, convertibles, motorbikes, rollerbladers and hand-holders. This scene from Adams Bridge near Ropp Hall says it all about Friday's weather.

Did this one make it to Pike's Peak?

79 ZP

You know, this one sounds strange, but Zebulon Pike, for whom Pike's Peak is named, was born in 1778. Could it be his plate? You got a better idea?

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Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1959

Main Street Bluffton 1960

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Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1959 looked like this. On the west side of Main Street to Church Street is C.F. Niswander and Son farm implements, Urich's IGA, the Charles Co., Crow's 5 and 10, and Citizens National Bank.

On the east side is the Carma Theater, The Horseshoe Grill and Niswander's Newstand.

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