Online registration is open through Friday for Bluffton’s Fifth Annual Ride to Remember.
On-site registration will be available the morning of the event, Saturday, July 20, at Bluffton Family Recreation (BFR). Individual adult registration is $30 and includes a swag bag with items from local merchants, an $8 lunch coupon and free swimming at BFR. Visit ridetoremember.net to register.
Bluffton artist Judith Greavu was recently featured in a Facebook post from Jane's Art Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She is also featured on the Center’s website.
The gallery is an eclectic fine art exhibition space featuring art from American and European artists.
Here’s a compilation of photos and comments from Greavu from the Center’s website.
It's a funny thing, how tennis balls can pound on a court fence powerful enough that the fence needs replacing. Actually, floods, weather and age are forces that are more powerful.
The Howe Tennis Courts on East College Avenue have new fencing this summer. Here's before and after views.
Your re-routing around the Allen-Hardin County Line Road south of U.S. 30, (Hog Creek bridge on Hardin County Road 15 west of Ada) is no longer necessary.
The bridge is now open. However, the county is developing a plan to alleviate flooding on the road and intends to raise the road and then repave County Road 15 this fall. That will close the bridge again.
U-pick hours this week are:
Tuesday evening, July 16, from 6-9 p.m.
Wednesday, July 17, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. (all day).
Thursday and Friday, July 18-19 evenings 6-9 p.m.
U-pick price is $2.50 per pound. Orders can be taken for picked berries and these are $5 per pound. Call 419-231-0832 for updated information or orders.
Once upon a time in Bluffton, if swimming was the plan, this was the scene.
The photo, enlarged from a snapshot taken in the early 1920s shows the Buckeye from the south bank looking north.
The building in the photo is very near the location of today's shelter house.
The "pool" had a slide and diving board platform (on the right), and a dressing area. Missing from the scene is a float (raft) with two barrels underneath.
Bluffton school board will act on its 2019-20 appropriations at the July 15 school board meeting. The appropriations total $19,952,960. Also, on the agenda is action on two teacher hirings and one teacher registration.
Amanda Temple resigned as middle school science teacher. She joined the teaching staff last year.
Amanda Markley will be offered a one-year teaching contract (master’s, step 13) at $62,848; and Natalie Townsend will be offered a one-year teaching contract (master’s, step 1) at $41,789.
Robert W. Millager, 84, of Bluffton died July 11, 2019, at Bridge Hospice Care Center in Findlay. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
When can you feed a carrot to a kangaroo on Main Street, or a pet very large turtle...and have free ice cream at the same time?
Many of you already know the answer.
Tommy Tire, 319 N. Main St., Bluffton, holds its annual community appreciation day on Thursday, July 18. (Rate date is Friday, July 19), according to Tom Dotson.
The event is planned from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The event includes free homemade Lugibihl’s ice cream from, plus an exotic animal exhibit from Jungle Island Zoo.
