Later this month repair work planned on pool's concrete seams
Posted by Fred Steiner on August 12, 2020 - 3:49pm
Swimmers awake!
The Bluffton Community Swimming Pool’s final week of operation is underway. The final day for swimming is Saturday, Aug. 15, according to Jenny Wilson, manager.
She said that the staff appreciates the extra steps taken by swimmers to ensure a safe operation in spite of the pandemic.
According to Jesse Blackburn village administrator, the pool will be pumped down next week to allow repair work on the concrete seams at the bottom of the pool.
The work, performed by Patterson Pools, Plain City, will begin on Monday, Aug. 24.
Posted by Bluffton Public... on August 12, 2020 - 2:02pm
The Bluffton Public Library is wrapping up the 2020 Summer Program and would like to remind everyone to log their reading on Beanstack and drop their virtual tickets into the preferred prize package(s) by the end of the day Saturday, August 15!
Any paper logs may be turned in via the outdoor bookdrop by the end of the day Saturday to be included in the drawings.
Tobias Buckell's Arctic Rising, and Hurricane Fever
Posted by Fred Steiner on August 12, 2020 - 11:57am
Local author speculates dire nightmares.
Review by Robert McCool
It's Monday in a sunny August blur where the world is in full bloom, the weather fine. During the past two days, and in addition to my regular weekend chores, I managed to read two speculative fiction novels where the weather is most definitively not fine.
Those books, Arctic Rising (Tor, ISBN 978-0-7653-1921-0), and Hurricane Fever (Tor, ISBN 978-0-7653-1922-7) byTobias S. Buckell take place in a space where global warming is transforming our world with an undesirable outcome.
Posted by Fred Steiner on August 12, 2020 - 11:17am
By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Bluffton girls tennis team lost at Shawnee 5-0 Tuesday.
The defeat dropped the Lady Pirate net record to 0-2. Shawnee swept all 10 sets in the dual match.
The freshmen second doubles tandem of Caitlyn Couch and Brooke Camper came closest to winning a set, but they lost their second set in a 7-6 tiebreak (7-4 in points).
Seniors Julia Smallcombe, Olivia Barnes and Pearl Lewandowski fell in singles play. Juniors Libby Frazier and Ellie Nickel also lost at first doubles.