June 2025

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The Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., has issued its June 2025 newsletter, full of happenings for its members. The 10-page update is now also available by email.

In this issue, readers learn about

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JUNE 2 MEDIA RELEASE__Fred Steiner will present a Swiss family migration program at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, June 5.

The presentation’s focus is on how and why ancestors of area residents immigrated to Bluffton, using the example of Steiner’s maternal great-grandparents, Rudolf and Barbara Amstutz Althaus.

Rudolf Althaus, who immigrated to America from Switzerland in 1845, owned a Bluffton general store and was also a trained landscape artist, painting scenes of Switzerland in oil, selling them to other Swiss immigrants.

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During June 5-6-7 a Community Wide Garage Sale event will be held in Pandora, Ohio. Some 25 garage sales and a Rummage Sale at Pandora United Methodist Church, 108 E Washington St., are planned for the extended weekend.

A Google map of sales is available HERE, with garage sales also to be added to the Bluffton Icon garage sale map. The deadline for sales submission was Friday, May 30. 

A list of sales is attached below that includes a summary of items to be sold and addresses. Local businesses will also have print copies by mid-week.

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By Paula Pyzik Scott
Bluffton Icon editor

Linger over news from May 2025 with articles of special and lasting local interest. A print copy is available for viewing at the Bluffton Public Library and is located with other print news.

May 1 Bluffton EMS station staffing goes 24/7 on May 1

May 7 Bluffton voters pass school funding renewal

May 9 Night at the Museum draws a full house at Bluffton Middle School

May 10 2025 Bluffton Trout Derby enjoyed "fowl" weather

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10 Pirates qualify for June 6-7 finals in Columubs

By Cort Reynolds

LEXINGTON__Nine Bluffton track and field individual athletes and one relay team qualified for the state meet with strong performances at the Div. II northwest regional meet on May 29 and 31 in Lexington.

The Bluffton boys claimed the regional team crown with 60 points, beating out 40 other schools. Oak Harbor came in second with 55.5 points, followed by Ottawa-Glandorf (51).   

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The following Honor Roll has been announced by Bluffton High School for the 4th quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.

9th Grade – All A
Owen Armstrong, Mallory Blackburn, Avery Boehm, Peighton Bowers, Owen Brauen, Toby Clevidence, Julia Dawdy, Willow Derstine, Phoebe Edwards-Leeper, Camryn Fruchey, Lane Ginther, Chloe Hanefeld, Klaira Hohenbrink, Micah Lemley, Maelee Miller, Alexis Mummert, Alexander Nance, Ezra Nygaard, Elizabeth Phillips, Isabella Recker, Natalie Richards, Ethan Smith, Joe Spencer, Lilly Swartzmiller, Peyton Worcester

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