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By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School volleyball team kept its long win streak alive with a sweep at outgoing Northwest Conference rival Ada on Thursday evening, September 21.

The Pirates ran their win string to 11 matches with a convincing 25-18, 25-19, 25-16 road victory. Bluffton improved to 13-2 overall and 3-0 in the NWC after the win.

“Ada is always very competitive but we had a few more hitters,” said Pirate head coach Kevin King. ”Karlie Lora had a good match. We had some serve errors, but we also served nine aces.”

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School girls soccer team ran into a buzzsaw at undefeated Ottawa-Glandorf in a non-conference match Thursday evening,  September 21, at Titan Stadium.

O-G built a 4-0 halftime lead and rolled to a 7-0 victory.

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School girls tennis team stayed hot with a 3-2 win over visiting Upper Sandusky Thursday evening,  September 21.

The Pirate netters improved to 6-6 with their third straight victory in four days this week.

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School golf team finished eighth in the annual nine-team Northwest Conference championship tournament Thursday,  September 21, at the Delphos Country Club.

Delphos Jefferson won the tournament crown with 348 strokes. 

COLUMBUS—On Sept. 21, Governor Mike DeWine announced a partnership among the RecoveryOhio initiative, the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio Department of Health’s Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided With Naloxone) to install lifesaving Naloxone kits at rest areas across the state.

Does Bluffton ooze ghosts? You can soon find out.

Just in time for Halloween, Where Bluffton’s Ghosts Sleep, the latest book by author--and Icon founder--Fred Steiner, will be available at a book signing from 10 :00-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St.

Subtitled “Unexpected stories from a small Ohio town,” the 196-page book includes what Steiner says is “every unexpected and cryptic Bluffton epic ever imagined.”

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