Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Board of Education met on Monday, February 10. Action included financial and staffing decisions.
The Board approved additional funding for Teacher Professional Development in the amount of $5,000.
In Contracts, Assignments and Resignations:
Karna Marquart completed her training and is now approved for 7.5 hour days as an Educational Aide.
Gianna Mallaro is completing her teaching assignment in Guidance Counseling with Mr. Utendorf.
Substitute teachers were approved.
The Board approved a resolution for work with All Temp Refrigeration to replace the chiller in the Middle School. It is 26 years old and when it needs repairs, it is becoming more costly. It is time to replace it.
The Board approved the OHSAA membership for the 2025-2026 academic year for the Middle School and High School to participate in the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Candidates for the office of Student Senate president at Bluffton University will debate at Forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, in Yoder Recital Hall.
In partnership with The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation, Cory-Rawson Local Schools is excited to announce the school’s Green & Gold Foundation Fund has reached its grant funding milestone. The fund will begin granting to school staff, coaches and administrators beginning in January 2026 to support enrichment opportunities for students across grade levels and programs. The fund will announce a capital campaign in the near future.
Ten Thousand Villages welcomes Haitian artist Jean François Frisnel as the February 2025 Artist of the Month. His paintings will be on display in the Ten Thousand Villages store during the month of February. The public is invited to come to a reception to meet the artist at 2 pm, Saturday, February 22.
In 1979 Frisnel was born in Carrefour, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He now resides in Lima, Ohio. He says this of his art career:
Bluffton University will host a Reader’s Theatre, “I Have Not Forsaken the Word of God, ” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in College Hall’s Ramseyer Auditorium.
The production is directed by Dr. Melissa Friesen, Mary Nord Ignat and Joseph Ignat professor of theatre and communication at Bluffton University, and is based on testimony of Jacques d’Auchy from “Martyrs Mirror.”
