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Pirate boys stymied at Bearcats

Senior Nic Essinger led Bluffton with 11 points. Carson Soper netted 10 and Nate Schaadt added 8
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 4:33pm

By Cort Reynolds
SPENCERVILLE - Six days after posting a state-record three-point onslaught, the visiting Bluffton boys were stifled 47-36 by Northwest Conference foe Spencerville in a defensive battle Friday night. 

Bluffton led 11-6 after a low-scoring first period. But Spencerville took control with a 17-8 second stanza to go in front 23-19 at intermission.

The Bearcats extended the margin to 34-26 after three quarters. Spencerville won the final stanza 13-10 as they canned nine of 12 free throws. 

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Pirate and a Beaver

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 3:15pm

Abbie Parkins, Blufton University senior, and Bluffton HS grad, sees action in a recent university women's basketball team. The team is 10-1 so far this season. (Bluffton University photo)

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University developing partnership

Providing educational discounts; enhance workforce needs
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 3:10pm

Bluffton University continues to grow its network of Corporate and Education Partnerships in northwest Ohio.

The university has entered into 3-year Corporate Partner or Education Partner agreements with five companies and four school districts since fall 2020. In total, 11 Corporate Partners and nine Education Partners have signed on since the spring 2020 launch.

“We are excited about the leadership opportunities for our region,” said Dr. Jane Wood, president of Bluffton University.

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Bluffton University
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Our generation in the covid-19 era

We aren't the first to experience this; it's just a different name
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 2:43pm

By Fred Steiner
It is a certainty that “The Covid-19 Era” will resonate with us as “The Great Depression” did with our parents and grandparents. 

The message “never throw anything away because you never know when you might need it,” is among the what-did-your Depression era grandparents and parents teach their Baby Boomers children?

That Great Depression generation’s continual reminder that things may be great today, but, once upon a time that wasn’t the case, can only mean they experienced something that we know very little about today.

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Iconoclast View
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Wanda Landes was a Bluffton High School graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 11:11am

Bluffton native Wanda M. (Hochstettler) Landes, 88, died at Elderwood on Jan. 21, 2021, in Wheatfield, New York. 

Wanda was born on Feb. 6, 1932, in Bluffton, Ohio, to Andrew A. and Esther S. Hochstettler. She graduated from Bluffton High School in 1950 and then attended Moody Bible Institute. She married Howard J. Landes of Bluffton, on June 19, 1954.

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Obituaries
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What a sound!

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 10:22am

Here's the Bluffton High School alumni jazz band in a 2004 performance with Dave Sycks directing.

• Saxes from left, Jesse Henry '96, David Stratton '01, Peter Bixel '98, Andy Eddinger '00, Ben Hohenbrink '98

• Trombones from left, Brian Barry '96, Jacob Boehr '01, Amanda (Doty) Morrison '02

• Trumpets from left, Travis Unterbrink '96, Ben Harmon '01, Katie (Fultz) Ochoa '96

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Historical Bluffton
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