Return to Dignity (A DABA Recovery Meeting) is moving from Wednesday evenings to every Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Bluffton First United Methodist Church in the Upper Room.
Cheryl S. Martin, 76, of Sylvania, Ohio peacefully passed away January 13, 2023 at Putnam Heritage Assisted Living in Ottawa, Ohio. Cheryl was born Oct. 7, 1946 in Bluffton to the late Fred and Eva (Wiess) Martin.
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In honor of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., January 16, 2023 is a national holiday. The Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon are closed on this day and will pause content except for breaking news.
Playing at home, the Bluffton High School girls basketball team got off to a big lead and defeated non-conference foe Pandora-Gilboa easily 59-27 Saturday afternoon, January 14.
Bluffton improved to 10-5 overall with the win as they increased their home record to 8-1.
The Bluffton High School boys basketball team lost to visiting Carey 47-43 in a close non-league bout Saturday night, January 14.
The Blue Devils trailed 26-21 at halftime, but turned the game around with a 17-8 third period. Five Carey players hit baskets in the momentum-changing quarter.
The teams played to a taut 9-9 tie in the fourth quarter.
The combatants were tied 13-13 after the first period, but Bluffton spurted to a five-point intermission lead behind a 13-8 second quarter.
Dr. Melissa Friesen will present the Colloquium “Tina Howe’s Unproduced Plays” at 4:00 p.m. on January 20 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall on the campus of Bluffton University.
During the presentation, Friesen will share discoveries from the collection of contemporary American playwright Tina Howe archived at Harvard University. Evidence from Howe’s writing notes, unpublished plays, letters and essays illuminate Howe’s writing process and her understanding of playwrights as “strip-tease artists of the soul.”
Should Bluffton install a traffic light at Main and College? Do you yield to pedestrians?
A January 10 accident on Main St. near College Ave. has village residents talking about long-standing concerns regarding traffic and pedestrian safety at this location. The police report has not yet been released, but preliminary information indicates that a youth was struck by a vehicle and then transported by EMS to Lima Memorial Hospital. It is expected to take several days for a report to be filed by the Bluffton Police Department.
The incident has reheated anxiety that has simmered since the traffic signal at Main St. and College was removed in 2009. Those most affected are the children who attend the schools on one side of Main and use the Bluffton Public Library and school sports facilities on the other side.
