There’s one less restroom in Bluffton, but no one is complaining.
The building – if you’d call it a restroom – at the Spring Street side of the Buckeye Park was removed earlier this month by village employees.
Its condition was the butt of jokes during a recent Bluffton council meeting, when one village employee stated, “We ought to pay people to use it,” noting its condition.
While it’s not cheap to go to the bathroom, Bluffton council’s park and recreation board, meeting on Jan. 29, flushed out ideas for a replacement.
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Tom and Sheena Dotson, owners of Tommy Tire Sales, Bluffton, recently purchased the former The Fun Zone in Columbus Grove and have turned it into a rental hall called Tommy’s Place.
The facility at 304 Delphos Road, Columbus Grove, has several functions, according to Tom Dotson.
Henry's Restaurant, Ottawa, was recently named the Ottawa Large Business of the Year by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce.
Bluffton residents John and Joyce Harris own the restaurant, located at N. Locust St., Ottawa. The restaurant is known as a full-service family-style restaurant with banquet facilities and catering service.
Ohio Department of Transportation released its salt usage for 2017-18 winter as of Feb. 14. Details follow:
Salt used: 56,769 tons
Liquid de-icer: 901,834 gallons
Miles driven for snow and ice: 747,999
Total cost: $7,001,851
Totals versus last year same time:
Salt used: 29,198 tons
Liquid de-icer: 373,502 gallons
Miles driven for snow and ice: 371,777
Total cost: $3,761,193
Senior artists and graphic designers from Bluffton University will showcase their most prominent work in their combined exhibit “Branching Off.” Amanda Diller, Bluffton, Miriam Fike, Lima, Tyler Frank, Maumee, Alissa Hauke, Leesburg, and Chase King, Cairo, will have work on display.
The exhibit opens March 1 and runs through March 28 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University’s Sauder Visual Arts Center.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton fans welcomed back home the Bluffton University women’s basketball team tonight as they faced off against the Manchester University Spartans on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The Beavers scored early and often as the home team rolled to a 76-57 win, improving to 18-6 overall (13-4 HCAC). The Spartans fell to 7-17 on the season (6-11 HCAC).
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. - The Bluffton University men’s basketball squad hit the road to face off against the Manchester University Spartans for its last road contest of the 2017-18 regular season. After a back-and-forth first half, the Spartans were able to take advantage of a second half spurt for an 85-81 victory which dropped Bluffton to 10-14 overall and 7-10 in the HCAC conference.
Bluffton council’s finance committee will meet with village employees in three separate meetings in the next two weeks. Meetings are in the town hall.
Meetings are with fire and safety services personnel, service department and administration.
According to David Steiner, council member, the meetings will focus on capital budgets for coming appropriations and for a 10-year projection of village expenses.
West Elm Street property owners between Spring and Bentley will have an information meeting with the Bluffton council streets, lights and alleys committee next week.
The meeting, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 22, in the third floor of the town hall, will enable the village to share its plans for West Elm Street improvements set for later this year.
Also attending the meeting will be representatives of Choice One, the engineering firm for the project.
15 minutes with Jessica (Foltz) Pratt Interviewed by Liz Gordon-Hancock
Jessica married Jeremy Pratt from Findlay. She is a stay-at-home mom with three children: Noah, age 8; Ruby 4; and Ellis, 10 months.
Where did you grow up and go to school?
I grew up in Bluffton until I was in my fifth grade of school. I then moved to Arlington, and that is where I graduated high school. I then attended the University of Findlay.
