Allen Soil and Water Conservation District recommendations
MEDIA RELEASE__Just because the weather is warming up and snow has melted doesn’t mean it’s safe to spread manure. When the ground is still frozen or saturated, nutrients can’t soak into the soil. Instead, melting snow and runoff can carry manure straight into ditches, streams and rivers.
MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, February 13, 2026. The meeting will be held on the third floor of the Town Hall.
The program will be provided by Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio and Twisted Whisk Café will be providing the breakfast, which is served at 7 a.m. No RSVP is required.
MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Lions Club is seeking nominees for the 2025 Citizen of the Year Award. The award was established in 1981 to honor a person, couple, or individual representing a group, who has selflessly given time, effort, and talent for the benefit of those in the Bluffton area, and whose dedication and achievements have profoundly improved the quality of life of the people in this area.
Information on the 2026 Business Series Classes and Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition is HERE.
By Alec Keller
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) 2025 grand prize recipient Jenni Staude is bringing a hands-on creative experience to communities across northwest Ohio with eco-friendly stuffed animals created aboard a brightly colored mobile workshop.
On January 24, the Bluffton-based dress company Super Cute Dresses featured the work of co-owner and designer Kariann Ringger in a Washington, D.C. fashion show in conjunction with the company’s Silver sponsorship of the National March for Life. The business is an online retailer of dresses for pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. This includes nursing, non-nursing, and mommy-and-me styles.
The following nine land transfers took place in the Bluffton Exempted Village School District for the month of January 2026 as reported on the websites of Allen County Auditor Rachael S. Gilroy and Hancock County Auditor Charity A. Rauschenberg.
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3 parcels on DAVES WAY and STATE RT 103 - 1/15/2026 - $155,000 – Commercial Vacant Land - From C T E ASHLAND INC to SKRJ LLC
