FROM FACEBOOK__Come learn about the life cycle of Monarch Butterflies at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 20. The speaker will be Cindy Basinger, owner of Backyard Perennials.
This free event will be at the Bluffton Community Garden, 9900 S. Main St. Please bring a chair and a friend.
MEDIA RELEASE__Trinity Lutheran School, 105 Allen Street, Jenera, is welcoming two new teachers.
Katherine Reinke will teach preschool and pre-kindergarten and also teach music for grades 3- 8. She and her husband Robert, who is the new vicar at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Findlay, for a year, moved to Jenera from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her hobbies include building LEGO flowers, reading, playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch and being outside.
LIMA__The Bluffton High School boys golf team shot well to win a soggy Northwest Conference triangular match at The Oaks Golf Club on Tuesday, August 18.
The Pirates prevailed by shooting a low team score of 172. Lima Central Catholic was 19 strokes behind at 191. Spencerville finished a distant third at 261 shots.
Bluffton’s Caleb Fifer earned match medalist honors by firing a nine-hole score of 39.
With the decisive wins, the Pirates improved to 4-1 overall and 3-1 in the NWC. The team is coached by Richard Streicher.
WAPAKONETA__The visiting Bluffton High School girls soccer team lost a 1-0 defensive battle to a strong Wapakoneta squad in a non-league showdown on Tuesday night, August 18.
Wapak improved to 2-0 with the win, while the Pirate girls start out 0-1.
The Redskins scored the game’s only goal in the eighth minute. Wapakoneta freshman Maddy Herbst found the back of the net on an assist from Aubrey Prenger with 32:34 remaining in the first half.
BLUFFTON__The Bluffton boys soccer team defeated visiting Botkins 3-1 in a non-league match on Tuesday, August 18 at Steinmetz Field. The team is coached by Dan Lee.
The Pirates improved to 1-1 with the win, while the Trojans dropped o 0-1 with the defeat.
Botkins has made it to the regional semifinals in each of the last two seasons, and has compiled a 33-5-4 over the last two years.
The Bluffton goals were scored by Gavin Amstutz, Emekka Bo Smith and Chase Kelly.
Bluffton art workshop leader Hannah Warwick transformed Pandora's Nook Cafe and Bakery with a playful, kid-friendly mural using a rainforest theme. Warwick notes that it took three days to create the bold, modern leaves on a background of blue, orange and yellow.
Been working on a project that required a little extra creativity, sweat equity or stick-to-it-tivness? (Or know someone who has?) Share the before, during and afters with [email protected].
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University will examine the challenges and opportunities surrounding artificial intelligence during its Civic Engagement Theme Panel, “Truth and Integrity in an Age of AI,” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The Village of Bluffton is refreshing crosswalks near the Bluffton Schools in preparation for the start of the 2026-2027 academic year. Bluffton University Beavers began classes on Monday, August 17, while Bluffton Pirates will go back to school after the Allen County Fair, starting on August 31.
