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OTTAWA __ First National Bank has promoted Sarah Klausing to Senior Branch Manager. Klausing will continue to oversee the Ottawa branch, as well as supervise the branch manager team. In her new role, Sarah will provide enhanced support to branch managers, focusing on staffing, procedures, training, facility maintenance, and achieving branch goals.

Klausing has served as a branch manager with First National Bank for over 5 years.

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The Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St. Bluffton, will be having its annual Garage Sale on Thursday, February 27 and 28 from 9 to 6, Saturday, March 1 from 9-1 and Monday, March 3 half price from 9-noon. Shoppers can expect lots of housewares, bedding, puzzles and games, jewelry, furniture and antiques and collectables.

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Fredrick “Fred” W. Evans, 80, a long-time resident of Ada, went home to the Lord on February 2, 2025 at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. He was born in April of 1944 in Pittsburgh, PA to Edwin Evans of North Lawrence, OH and Elizabeth (Myers) Evans of Ada.  

Fred was a proud graduate of the 1962 class of Marion L. Steele High School in Amherst, OH.  He was a certificate holder from the Oberlin School of Commerce and he was known for his exacting accounting capabilities in his early business employment.

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Bluffton Area Ministerial Association has announced that it will provide Ashes to Go on Ash Wednesday, March 5, from 7:00-9:00 a.m.

Ashes to Go will take place in front of Presbyterian Church, 112 N. Main St.

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At 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, the Bluffton High School boys basketball team will play Lima Central Catholic in the OHSAA D6 District Semi-Finals at the Elida Fieldhouse.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at https://www.ohsaa.org/tickets $5 for students (K-12) $8 Adults. Cash only tickets are available at the gate.

This evening is a split session. The gym will be cleared after the 6 p.m. game with Columbus Grove vs. Crestview.

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Registration deadline: March 9

The Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) is once again hosting the Small Business Information Series and the Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.

The Business Plan Competition is open to any entrepreneur with a business idea, or a business that has been in operation for three years or less.

The 2025 Small Business Information Series will be held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. beginning on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 and ending on April 15, 2025. 

The classes will be hosted locally on the third floor of the Bluffton Town Hall. Classes will be broadcast live from the Borra Center at Rhodes State Collage. 

Please note that online, remote class opportunities will exist should you not be able to make every session.

For more information, or to register, click HERE.

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