March 2025

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The Bluffton Public Library will host the following events and activities during the week of March 31-April 5. For further details and dates, visit www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org/library-events/

Monday, March 31

Hummin’ & Strummin’ Song Circle - 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1

Open Chess - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 2

Baby Storytime - 10 to 10:30 a.m.

Pre-K Storytime - 10:30 to 11 a.m.

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Provided by Cory-Rawson Local Schools

Cory-Rawson Local Schools held its third annual Amazing Shake event on March 26, 2025. The program gives seventh grade students an opportunity to be authentically assessed on skills from their year-long Thrive class. 

Thrive is based on the district's Portrait of a Hornet attributes of communication, relationship-building, critical thinking and resilience.

All seventh graders begin the day in the first round, the Gauntlet. Featuring 20 stations, students perform a variety of impromptu tasks including problem-solving, solving a customer service issue, responding to a rude restaurant server, making a medical appointment via phone and a variety of interviews.  Volunteer community partners from a number of companies and organizations judge each station.  MORE

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Rev. Dr. Maxwell Kennel, director of Pandora Press and editor of the Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies Series, came to Bluffton University the week of March 24, 2025, for spring semester’s Spiritual Life Week. Kennel provided the Forum and Chapel messages and worked with students as they explored Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and the theme “Faith and Memory.”

“Memory is not merely an individual act,” said Kennel. “But a collective process, shaped by our social and political context.”

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Provided by the Friends of the Library

The Friends of Bluffton Public Library are hosting their annual Spring Tea and Silent Auction on Tuesday, May 6. The guest speaker will be local author Dave Essinger, who has published two novels.

The elegant, formal tea will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the library’s Richland Room on the lower level.

Tickets are $20 (cash or check) and will be sold at the library, 134 S. Main St., starting on Tuesday, April 1. The event has limited seating.

Essinger vividly remembers sheltering under school cafeteria tables for “fallout dills” in case of nuclear war, and has been more or less expecting the world to end ever since. His new post-apocalyptic novel This World and the Next is available from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in print and Amazon Kindle in ebook.

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Provided by Allen County Health Department, March 28, 2025

A case of measles has been identified in an unvaccinated Allen County resident under the age of 18. Contacts of the individual have been notified by public health professionals with Allen County Public Health and other health departments in the area to assess their measles vaccination status, and to provide information regarding signs and symptoms of measles and appropriate quarantine measures. 

Measles is very contagious. Children infected with measles can spread it to others, even before they have symptoms. The measles virus can live for up to two hours in the air after an infected person leaves the room. Nine out of 10 unvaccinated children who are exposed to measles will become infected.  Symptoms may not occur for up to 21 days after exposure to an individual who has measles.  MORE ▶︎

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Bluffton Middle School has released the following Honor Roll for the 3rd quarter of the 2024-2025. academic year. This Honor Roll is for students in grades 6-8.

All “A” Honor Roll

6th Grade: 

Morgan Basinger, Natalie Basinger, Kyra Bingley, Julie Brauen, Emily Byers, Aryn Clinger, Quinn Cupples, Lydia Davis, Aiden Diller, Malia Fought, Elijah Fry, Jonathan Gallant, Olivia Goodwin, Lydia Gratz, Gabriella Gremling, Kaidree Hohenbrink, Gabriella Holmes, Kinley Kill, Milena King, Zachary Lehmkuhle, Julianna Lewis, Samuel Lovett, Averie Marquart, Mikah Miller, Kayla Mueller, Sage Music, Simon Phillips, Samuel Rinaldi, Ryan Shough, Peyton Simon, Mckenna Stoner, Caroline Stratton, Cooper Tuttle, Arden Ulrey, Lillian Utendorf, Ellia Zink

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Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main St., has announced the following programs and events for April 2025. Have questions? Call the library at 419-358-5016.

Events and Programs 

National Library Week, April 6–12, 2025, is a time to celebrate the many ways libraries bring people together, spark imagination, and support lifelong learning.

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Joseph “Joe” Ropp Davies, 77, passed away March 28, 2025, at his home.

Joe was born September 28, 1947 in Bluffton to Richard and Vernice (McElroy) Davies who preceded him in death. On November 25, 1970 he married Nancy (Donehoo) Davies, who survives. 

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From ODOT District 1

Hillville Road over Interstate 75 will close April 1 for approximately one day for bridge maintenance.

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Provided by the Bluffton Senior Center

The Bluffton Senior Center is happy to announce that it now has a lift for visitors to use at the back entrance. This will allow anyone who has trouble with steps to access the building from the municipal parking lot.

The lift can bring people and materials up the 22 inches from the parking lot into the building where there is an automatic door.

The Bluffton Senior Center Board thanks the Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities for the Accessible Communities Grant that helped pay for the lift and its installation. The board would also like to thank the Village of Bluffton, administrator Jesse Blackburn; Mayor Rich Johnston and the Village Council for their help on the project.  MORE ▶︎

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