Over the next two months, 2,400 Allen County residents will be randomly selected to participate in a community health assessment survey, according to Monica Harnish, director of health planning services of the Allen County Public Department.
The committee is working closely with the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio and researchers at the University of Toledo to conduct the survey.
Residents of Allen County who are randomly selected are urged to complete and return the survey.
Visiting league co-leader Bluffton outscored Ada by 22 points over the middle quarters to post a convincing 69-41 girls basketball win over the Lady Bulldogs in Northwest Conference play Thursday evening.
The purple and gold fell to 7-13 and 1-6 in the NWC after their fourth straight defeat, while the visitors improved to 15-4 and 7-0 in the league with the victory.
Bluffton will face co-league unbeaten Columbus Grove (6-0 NWC) in the conference finale to decide the championship.
The 2007 Bluffton University baseball team has been selected for induction into Bluffton’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
On March 2, 2007, the Bluffton baseball team experienced an accident that forever changed the lives of the players, coaches, their family and friends and the Bluffton campus community.
Bluffton school board initiated the bid process for an 84-passenger transit school bus during its Feb. 8 board meeting. The board will open bids for the bus at 9 a.m., Wednesday, March 8, in the superintendent’s office.
The board also accepted a contract totally $199,500 for materials and installation of bleachers in the high school gym. The contract is with Hussey Seating Co., and Farnham Equipment Co.
The current bleachers are the original bleachers and are nearly 30 years old. The project could begin as soon as April and should be completed later in the spring.
Bluffton University students shared stories of life-altering experiences from Guatemala, Spain and Washington, D.C., during two Cross-Cultural Forums held Jan. 31.
Eleven students spent the fall 2016 semester in Guatemala. The group lived for the first nine weeks in Guatemala City, taking Spanish and Latin American history classes at Central America Study and Service (CASAS) which is affiliated with the Guatemalan Mennonite Church.
Beaver Excavating Co., Canton, is the apparent low bidder for a project, which will reconstruct and widen Interstate 75 through Findlay and Hancock County beginning this spring.
The apparent successful bid was $113.2 million. The contract will be officially awarded in approximately two weeks once a review of all bidding documents is complete.
The project will take place from just south of Harrison Street/County Road 144, which is just south of the Ohio 15/U.S. Route 68 interchange, to the County Road 99 interchange in Findlay.
Several spring testing dates are approaching Bluffton middle school students. That list and several other bits of news are part of the current issue of Pirate Press, the middle school newsletter.
In addition, several calendar items are in the newsletter. A complete copy of the newsletter is attached at the bottom of this story.
S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club and the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center launch the 2017 Bluffton garage sale season at the end of February. There's even a chicken barbecue tossed in.
