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Deborah Bish wins Lions Club shopping spree

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2016 - 8:53pm

Deborah Bish from Ada, shown with the Bluffton Community Market manager, Mike Love, was the Shopping Spree winner at the Market on May 7. 

The Bluffton Lions Club sponsored the shopping spree as a way to gain proceeds for their scholarship program.  Winnings from this spree and other projects conducted by the Lions Club make it able to again give six scholarships for seniors in the area schools of Bluffton, Pandora-Gilboa and Cory-Rawson. 

These scholarship winners will be announced at the school’s annual awards session this week.

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Transy takes series opener 5-4 over Beavers

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 6, 2016 - 10:20pm

May 6, 2016

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LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Bluffton University baseball team knotted the score at 4-4 with three runs in the top of the eighth, but Transylvania took the series opener with a walkoff sacrifice fly to center an inning later for a 5-4 victory on a beautiful Friday, May 6, 2016. Transylvania upped its mark to 20-16 overall and 16-8 in the Heartland Conference, while Bluffton fell to 15-23 and 8-17 in the HCAC.

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Retiring chamber director's talk: How to succeed in Bluffton by really trying

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 5, 2016 - 9:04pm

“How to succeed in Bluffton by really trying,” is a presentation that Fred Steiner, retiring director of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, will give during the Friday, May 13, chamber breakfast.

The breakfast, open to the public, is in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall. The Dough Hook will cater the breakfast. Breakfast is served from 7 to 7:30 a.m. The program is from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.

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Reese and Gonzalez earn First Team All-HCAC

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 5, 2016 - 7:03pm

May 5, 2016

BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University track and field team hosted the 2016 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend and Coach Brandt's efforts culminated in a highly successful showing for the Beavers. The campus and community came together in force and staged a once-a-decade meet while making it look like a weekly occurrence at the Sears Complex!

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Mark Moyer, 1958-2016

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on May 5, 2016 - 5:07pm

Mark Lynn Moyer, 57, of McDonald, died Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at his home. 

He was born September 30, 1958 in Bluffton, OH, a son of the late Donald Moyer and Louise Reichenbach Schwieterman of Maria Stein, OH.

Moyer was a principal in contracts management for Atos, whose home office is in France, for the past 21 years.

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Farmers' market opens for the season on Saturday morning

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 5, 2016 - 4:22pm

Bluffton's favorite Saturday morning spring and summer pasttime returns on Saturday.

The Bluffton Farmers' Market, operated by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, opens for the season. The market is located in the Citizens National Bank parking lot. Market hours are the same as last year, 8:30 a.m. to noon.

The market will continue each Saturday morning until the end of October. A vendor's meeting took place in April. At that time 19 vendors from last year registered for the entire season.

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