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July 25 real estate auction

Siefker Real Estate and Auction, Ottawa, will conduct a public real estate auction at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 25.

The auction location is on site at 5801 County Road 16, McComb, Ohio 45858. An open house is from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, July 7.

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Icon's Open Door Contest - winner received a Padrone's Pizza

Here’s a Main Street door contest that anyone may enter (excuse the pun). We call it the Icon Open Door Contest.

Here’s how it works:

You see photos of eight doorways, or windows above doorways, each located on Main Street Bluffton between the post office and town hall.

All you need to do is to identify the business on the other side of the door.

We’ve distorted some business names to keep this contest honest.

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Planning commission considering rezoning proposal

Four properties bordering railroad and Riley Creek

The Bluffton village planning commission will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m., Thursday, July 16, to consider a proposed zoning reclassification, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.

Held in the third floor of the town hall, 154 N. Main St., the hearing will consider rezoning of four parcels. These parcels are currently zoned Residential I (R-I). The hearing's intention, according to Blackburn, is to rezone them Industrial II (I-II).

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Sidewalk shopping

It's a perfect afternoon for a sidewalk sale in downtown Bluffton. Here's an example of what you'll find at The Black Lab, 121 N. Main St. Several additional businesses have items on the sidewalk for easy viewing.

They played basketball during the 1918 flu epidemic

This Bluffton College men’s basketball team play its games during the 1918 flu epidemic and were not yet called "Beavers."

Front from left, Vernon Ramseyer and Gordon Bixel.

Center, Menno Lehmann, Oliver Kratz (coach) and Donavin Baumgartner, captain

Top, Herbert Gottshall, Ezra  Moser, Harold Guth andAllen Day. Not photographed, the team manager was Wilmer Shelly.

Make it your business

BCE live stream discussion on July 30

Three local businesses will join the BCE for a live stream discussion, "Make It Your Business: Setting Up a Side Hustle." The live stream is set for Thursday, July 30, according to Paula Scott of Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs.

The event is co-hosted by the Bluffton Public Library as part of its summer reading program. To register, email [email protected].

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