From left: Austen "Feared Bear" Herron, Jack "Big Foot" Burrell, Misha "River Trout" Groman and Christian "Red Hawk" Groman.

For the past eight months, the Bluffton Boy Scouts have been actively preparing for the Sesquicentennial Indian Village and Trading Post at the Buckeye.

Under the direction of Assistant Scoutmaster and American Indian historian Gary "Book Reader" Wetherill, 20 scouts have been making authentic costumes, typical of the Indian tribes of this area of the late 1700's to early / mid-1800s.

The story of a former Bluffton resident, Tom MacMasters, who allegedly posed as a fake Syrian lesbian, is being following across the Internet.

Here's the lastest from gawker.com.

Here's the latest from The New York Times.

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Okay, I'll admit the first 2/3 of my vacation wasn't intended to be educational although I did learn a few things while relaxing on Tybee.

Helpful things...or at least helpful for the next time I'm near a beach.

I now know that that the sting of a jellyfish does not always cause an adverse reaction on humans, and, by watching a few very young experts, I learned how to pick them up and fling them to the beach.

BFR is offering a Red Cross Babysitter Training Class on Friday, July 15, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.

Youth ages 11 to 15 are welcome to participate in a one-day training clinic. It will cover topics of working with small children, safety concerns and basic first aid.

Kelly Honse, Red Cross instructor, will lead the clinic planned for 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at BFR. Cost for the training is $43 ($38 BFR member) and includes the clinic, snack, training notebook and CD-Rom and emergency kit. Contact BFR 419-358-4150 to register by July 11.

Bluffton knows how to throw a party. From June 24 to July 2 it will be one very large party. The party starts with Bluffton's Amerifest 2011 on the Bluffton University football field.

Here's the schedule:

Relay for Life of Bluffton - Bluffton University

Lots of chrome, tail lights with large fins, white sidewalls and toss in some Model T Fords. It's coming Friday, June 24. It's Bluffton Lions Club's 44th annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-in.

All activities are held on Main Street and College Avenue, downtown

Bluffton Public Library will be closed Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.

Due dates for library materials will be adjusted accordingly. For more information, visit the library, log on to www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org, check out the library's Facebook page or call 419-358-5016.