The Bluffton University women's basketball team fell behind 25-7 at the end of one quarter and it was too much to overcome as Hanover College held off the Beavers for a 62-53 win on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Bluffton slipped to 8-5 overall and 2-4 in the Heartland Conference, while Hanover improved to 7-5 with a spotless 6-0 mark in the HCAC heading into the Panthers' showdown with 6-0 Transylvania on Wednesday night.
The West Central Ohio Land Conservancy is accepting applications for the 2020 Local Agriculture Easement Purchase Program (LAEPP) from landowners located in Allen County, according to Tyler Black of Bluffton and treasurer of the organization.
The LAEPP program allows landowners to voluntarily sell easements on their farms to the State of Ohio.
For a moment this morning, Bluffton was the center of Ohio, as state government leaders held a bill-sign event here.
Attending a signing ceremony for Ohio House Bill 2, held at GROB Systems, were Gov. Mike DeWine, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof, and Jon Cross, of the 83rd district, a primary sponsor of the bill.
The event was witnessed by about 60 persons including area elected officials, the media and GROB associates.
Seth Gladwell, a Bluffton High School senior, is the Icon's student artist of the month.
He has taken Art One, Design One, Ceramics One, Mural and Cremices Two.
"In Ceramics Two I tried something new this year where I added strips of clay to the top of my pot that I threw on the pottery wheel and then continued to throw it larger," he said.
"This allowed me to get it the height that I wanted it to be. This took me about two weeks to throw.
Rev. Thomas M. Holmes of Lima, is serving as interim pastor of First United Methodist Church. In addition, he is interim pastor at Rockport United Methodist.
He is the retired executive director of Covenant Ministry Services, Lima, and as a United Methodist clergy, has served in interim pastorates in Paulding, Payne and Forest Park, Lima.
Winter and summer struggled to make a point over the weekend as local temperatures rose to 64 and dipped to 29 degrees.
The chart shows temperature high and lows and daily precipitation for the first 12 days of 2020, provided by Guy Verhoff, U.S. weather observer, from Pandora.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Host Bluffton shut out Paulding in the first period and went on to post a decisive 63-48 Northwest Conference boys basketball win Friday evening.
Bluffton led 10-0 after the first quarter and held a 26-17 halftime edge. The Pirates outscored the Panthers 37-31 in the second half.
Bluffton improved to 9-1 overall and 3-0 in the NWC with the win, while the Panthers fell to 2-8 and 1-2 in the NWC with the defeat.
Dr. Melissa Michal, assistant professor of English, will share “Genocide of the Mind and Indigenous Resilience,” during a Colloquium presentation at 4 p.m. on Jan. 17 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
During the presentation, Michal will discuss how genocide and trauma have affected both American Indians and non-Natives, how American Indians have found resilience through art and performativity, and how we take action to evolve curriculum and business practices to enact Haudenosaunee brotherhood.
Bluffton youth Jackson Bowlus, June Essinger and Levin Essinger competed in the Tim Welsh Invitational Jan. 3-5, at the Rolfs Aquatic Center at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. More than 500 swimmers from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin competed.
The local swimmers are part of the Lima YMCA USA Swim Club coached by April Dorman and Jeff Bowlus. This was the team’s second appearance at the invite and a total of 10 swimmers from the area competed with the Lima team finishing 15 out of 28 teams.
