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Two junior high boys' bball summer leagues forming soon at BFR

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 15, 2016 - 1:40pm

Bluffton Family Recreation is taking registrations for its summer junior high boys’ basketball league.
 
The league has a division for seventh grade teams and a division for eighth grade teams.
 
Each team will play back-to-back double headers every week of league play. Seventh grade games are Tuesday evenings from May 21 to June 28. Eighth grade games are Monday evenings from May 30 to June 27.
 

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All the music you can eat on Friday's Music Booster event

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 15, 2016 - 8:47am

Tad Steiner is one of many Bluffton school musicians who will perform during the Friday, March 18, Music Booster barbecue and musical performance.

Performances begin at 4:30 p.m. in the middle school gym. Choice of Larson's barbecue or shrimp dinner is available while tickets are available. Dinners are served in the middle school cafetorium beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Tickets are $8 and are available in the middle school office. The meal includes one-half chicken or seven pices of shrimp, potato salad, apple sauce, dinner roll and drink.

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Events
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Icon asks voters to support both local levies on Tuesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 14, 2016 - 9:02pm

Two significant local levies are on the March 15 local ballot:
• Bluffton school income tax renewal levy
• Bluffton Public Library renewal levy
 
Both deserve every voter’s support.
 
School levy highlights
Money generated by the school levy is used to replace roofs, buy new busses, remodel classrooms, air condition the elementary, purchase new boilers and update technology, etc. The money is not and cannot be used for salaries or fringe benefits.
 

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First grader, Kalin Osting, excels on ice with the Findlay Junior Trojans

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 14, 2016 - 5:08pm

Kalin Osting just finished the 2015-2016 hockey season with the Findlay Junior
Trojans.  The Junior Trojans went 15-5 in tournament play, winning the Mid-Am
Silver Stick Regional in Dayton, and the McCarthy Cup in Newark.

The team qualified to play in the prestigious Silver Stick finals in Detroit,
where they played teams from Georgian Shores, Ontario, and Sturgeon Lake,Ontario.

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Sports
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Richard Benroth was a Bluffton High School graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 14, 2016 - 5:01pm

Richard D. Benroth, 80, of Bluffton died at 7:42 p.m. March 13, 2016, at his residence.  Richard was born July 1, 1935 in Bluffton to the late Emory and Cleona Welty Benroth.  On May 5, 1961 he married Jane Alspach and she survives. 

Richard retired from Hysan Automotive, Findlay.  He was a graduate of Bluffton High School and served in the US Army.

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Obituaries
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There goes the ribbon

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 14, 2016 - 4:46pm

Dr. Matt Ellerbrock and Crystal Ellerbrock make certain that the ribbon gets cut on Friday. Assisting are Ellerbrock's Spine and Soft Tissue staff and several members of the Bluffton chamber. Here's some background on the newest Main Street business.

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