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School board puts final touches on 2020-21 opening

Will enter executive session to discuss hiring

The board's complete agenda is attached at the bottom of this story -
Bluffton school board puts final touches on the start of the 2020-21 school year at its meeting on Monday. The agenda also includes a planned executive session to discuss employment of personnel.

Two resignation and several new classified employee hirings is on the agenda. Cheryl Morris and Leisa Stratton announced their resignations.

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Club BFR • Virtual 5K • Adult co-ed VB • Final week of summer camp

Bluffton Family Rec ends summer and gets fall planning underway

• Club BFR after school program
• Virtual 5K
• Adult co-ed volleyball
• Final week of summer camp

Bluffton Family Recreation is busy concluding summer programming while getting ready for the fall. Here's what coming:

Club BFR
This after-school program is for 5 to 12-year-olds and takes place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Busing from the elementary to BFR is part of the program. The cost is $40 for members and $80 for non-members. A youth’s one-month membership is $20.

Moving in

Bluffton's population expanded today with the return of Bluffton University students for the fall semester. The latest fashion statement this year is masks. Here are several photos of move-ins at Hirschy Hall.

Allen County moves to Orange Level 2 Alert

More Allen County residents have been doing their part to help stop the spread of COVID-1

Governor Mike DeWine announced Thursday, August 13, that Allen County has moved to Orange Level 2 Alert. Allen County currently meets the following two indicators:

•  New cases per capita (over 50/100,000)
•  Proportion of cases not in a congregate setting

In addition to the indicators Allen County’s per capita case rate dropped to 96.73 cases/100,000, below the benchmark of 100/100,000 that kept Allen County in Red Level 3 Alert last week.

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR ALLEN COUNTY

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Pirate win

Pearl Lewandowski, serves to her Kenton opponent in a tennis match yesterday on the Howe Courts. Bluffton won the match 4-1.

Not your ordinary Pirate football season

Updated grid schedule with NWC tourney • BHS opens season hosting Grove

The all-NWC season schedule is attached as is a tournament playoff bracket.

By Cort Reynolds
 The Northwest Conference athletic directors met Wednesday and came up with a unique new season schedule and tournament in response to the pandemic.

The previous schedule with non-league games to start out with has been totally scrapped. For 2020, the NWC has been split into two divisons, East and West, with a short three-game pool play schedule preceding a league tournament that will guarantee each school three more games.

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