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Noteworthy performance

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 11, 2019 - 2:11pm

Vicki Mills directs the Noteworthy Community Choir during the intermission of the patrotic pops concert at ONU on Saturday. Additional photos are in this series. Mills conducts the first-ever Summer Sounds Choral Camp, July 15-19, at ONU.

 

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After the storm

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 11, 2019 - 2:10pm

You are gazing into the northwest from a couple miles west of Bluffton at about 100 feet above ground. This photo was taken following last evening's storm by Joel Dunifon.

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Swimmers on your mark!

Swim meet brings nearly 3,000 people to Bluffton on Friday and Saturday
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 11, 2019 - 1:55pm

More than 500 swimmers and their families will descend on Bluffton on Friday and Saturday for the annual Western Ohio Aquatics League (WOAL) swim champs. The WOAL is for swimmers aged 4-18 who are members of one of the league’s teams.

Bluffton Community Swimming Pool is the host site for the 2019 swim champs and will host eight teams from:
• Ada
• Bluffton
• Kenton
• Shawnee Country Club
• Sherwood
• Wapakoneta,
• Westside and
• Van Wert

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Pirates host Rockets in football (for real) on Sept. 6

Pandora-Gilboa vs. Bluffton HS football rivalry returns after 54 season absence
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 11, 2019 - 1:48pm

It’s July, but let’s talk fall Bluffton High School sports.

Alex Hanna, BHS athletic director, released the fall sports schedules, attached at the bottom of this story.

One rivalry of the past is back on the BHS football schedule as the Pirates host Pandora-Gilboa on Friday, Sept. 6, in a non-conference game.

CHECK OUT THE 1965 FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO
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Dr. Robert Puckett joins Carey Medical Center

Posted by LizGH on July 11, 2019 - 6:00am

Blanchard Valley Medical Practices, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, recently welcomed Robert Puckett, D.O., to Carey Medical Center. The office is located at 120 West S. St., Carey. Dr. Puckett is welcoming new patients.

Dr. Puckett is a Carey native and received his bachelor’s degree from The University of Toledo. He completed his osteopathic medical degree at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, Pennsylvania. Dr. Puckett then completed his family medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine residency at Millcreek Community Hospital, also in Erie. 

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Bluffton's big bird

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 10, 2019 - 2:53pm

Joel Dunifon was probably just as surprised as the great blue heron when Dunifon cross the Riley on Columbus Grove Road. He saw the big bird, stopped and took this photo with is cell phone. Bluffton's big bird is a fixture along Riley Creek.

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