FROM BPL UPDATES__John Jantzen and Wendy Chappell-Dick gave themselves a challenge: to learn 50 songs to celebrate America 250.
These selections range from music popular in colonial times up to the Civil War. Included in the 50 are songs of immigrants, Native Americans and African American Slaves, as well as hymns and courting tunes, all accompanied by dulcimer, guitar and spoons.
Join Wendy for this final performance on Oct. 15 at 6:30 on the Main Floor of the Bluffton Public Library.
Suter Produce has been creating a corn maze since 1999, and I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to experience this northwest Ohio attraction. I decided to tackle the corn maze this year with my family in tow, including two very young grandchildren.
We entered the maze with excitement and were surprised to find there is a scavenger hunt as you go through. They hand you a long piece of cardboard with fill-in-the-blank clues. When you find the clue, you stamp your card.
MEDIA RELEASE__Area Agency on Aging 3 and the Hancock Hardin Wyandot Putnam Community Action Commission (HHWP CAC) is inviting residents of Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam, Van Wert, and Wyandot counties to complete a transportation survey to support the Regional Coordinated Transit Plan.
PHOTO Bluffton University / L-R Mary Ramseyer, Christine Denecker, Nancy Schweingruber
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University recognized three individuals for their outstanding commitment to vocation, community and the university during the President’s Banquet Saturday, Oct. 3.
Dr. Christine (Jolliff ’89) Denecker was awarded the Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes a graduate who has continued the pursuit of intellectual growth and has explored creative avenues in his or her chosen field.
Donald Dean Donovan, 73, passed away in the early morning of October 4, 2026 in his sleep at a nursing facility in Kansas City, Kansas.
He was born June 1, 1953, in Iola, Kansas, to Curtis Almer and Elaine Donovan, who predeceased him.
He leaves 4 children; Angie (Brandon) Clark of Osawatomie Kansas, Livie (Ben) Weber of Barnsdall Oklahoma, Michael (Candy) Sweet and Terry Donovan of Cameron Missouri, 10 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren with more on the way.
