Interstate 75 northbound entrance ramp from state Route 103 will close Wednesday, Aug. 29, for one day for bridge deck repair. Traffic will be detoured onto state Route 103 and state Route 235 back to Interstate 75 northbound.
Interstate 75 northbound between state Route 235 and state Route 698, between Mount Cory and Findlay, will be reduced to one lane through the work zone for bridge deck and pavement repairs. Work is expected to begin Monday, Aug. 27, and last for approximately two days. Work is being performed by the ODOT roadway services department.
Next week launches the first of four fall program sessions at Bluffton Family Recreation, according to Daniel Tinch, BFR executive director. Each session lasts four week.
The following youth program are part of the first session. Registration is still open for these programs. Contact BFR at 419-358-4150 or register on line at www.bfronline.com.
The cost for participating in Session 1 is $12 for members and $24 for program participants.
Bluffton Lions will perform eye screening for Bluffton Kindergarteners and day care children from Sept. 10 to 19, according to Barbara Plaugher of the club.
Several additional Lions programs are planned in September. Open the current Lions newsletter, attached at the bottom of this story, for additional Lions news.
Poemsby Sean Lause of Bluffton are included in the 2018 edition of Quiet Diamonds, the annual poetry journal from The Orchard Street Press.
Poems in the anthology were selected from entries to The Orchard Street Press annual poetry contest, a national competition.
Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College. He recently released "Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons," an chapbook that deals with fathers and sons and the post-industrial experience in the Lima-Bluffton area.
Mackay Tuttle shows some green peppers from the Little Riley Creek Farm vendor booth at the Bluffton Farmers' Market. The next market is Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Citizens National Bank parking lot, Main Street, Bluffton.
All proceeds go to Community Assistance Program back-to-school drive
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Teams are forming for a Saturday, Sept. 8, Bluffton Battle of the Businesses with proceeds going to the Bluffton Community Assistance Program’s back-to-school drive.
The event is sponsored by Stratton Auto Group, Southgate Lanes and Lisa Wenger of RealLiving CCR Realtors.
Taking place at Southgate Lanes, the battle will include four-player teams and the competition begins at 2 p.m.
Registration is $250 per team, which includes three games of bowling, a t-shirt and dinner for each team player.
