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Pirate defeat Ada 27-21 on the road

Bluffton High School's football team defeated Ada on the road 27-21 in a Northwest Conference contest.

Game stats are attached to the bottom of this story.

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Council's Monday focus is fire station, sidewalks, parking

Special note about Monday’s council meeting:
• 7:30 p.m. – council will tour the Bluffton fire station on North Main St.
• 8 p.m. – council will be in session in the third floor of the town hall

Bluffton council will hear an extensive report from its streets, lights and alleys committee on Monday.

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Volleyball battles #5 Calvin and #13 Hope

By: Samantha Granger, sports information assistant

Calvin stats  I  Hope stats

School board will act on two 2016 renewal levies on Monday

On Monday, Bluffton school board will consider action to eventually place two renewal levies on the March 15, 2016, ballot.

The levies are:

• Three-year renewal for the school’s permanent improvement percent income tax levy, which expires Dec. 31, 2016.

• Ten-year renew of the Bluffton Public Library’s one mill (1.0) levy for the purpose of maintaining current level of resources and services. It also expires on Dec. 31, 2016.

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Bluffton faculty member to discuss her first book

Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, will present a program Tuesday, Oct. 27, on her newly published book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control.”

Beginning with a reception at 3:45 p.m., the event is free and open to the public in Bluffton’s Musselman Library Reading Room.

Unrau, Mich musicians to present faculty recital Oct. 25

Dr. Lucia Unrau, a pianist and professor of music at Bluffton University, will present a faculty recital with Michigan musicians Sandra Jackson and David Jackson at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, in Bluffton’s Yoder Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

The performance is one of several this fall featuring Unrau and Sandra Jackson, an assistant professor of clarinet at Eastern Michigan University and Unrau’s summer colleague at Interlochen (Mich.) Arts Camp.

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