The Ohio Department of Public Safety's Office of Criminal Justice Services (OCJS) will award $4.4 million in funding to help local law enforcement agencies pay for body-worn camera equipment and associated costs. Beginning on February 3, Allen County Sheriff’s Office deputies wil be equipped with body-worn cameras. The Bluffton Police Department will have body camera systems delivered in March. The body cameras won’t go into service until a Village policy has been established.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton University welcomed alumni Dr. Jonathan Moyer ’02 back to campus as the featured speaker for the university’s 48th annual Keeney Peace Lecture, an event that invites the campus community to reflect on faith, justice and peacemaking in today’s world.
Daryl Eugene Amstutz passed away peacefully on February 4, 2026 the Bridge Hospice Care Center in Findlay.
Daryl was born on October 28, 1939, in Bluffton to the late Cleland and Esther (Huber) Amstutz. On May 25, 1992, he married Julie Field Amstutz and she survives.
Daryl graduated from Pandora-Gilboa High School and proudly served in the United States Army. He was a life-long farmer, bank appraiser and was instrumental in starting Northwest Recycling in Pandora. Daryl had attended Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora.
On January 24, the Bluffton-based dress company Super Cute Dresses featured the work of co-owner and designer Kariann Ringger in a Washington, D.C. fashion show in conjunction with the company’s Silver sponsorship of the National March for Life. The business is an online retailer of dresses for pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. This includes nursing, non-nursing, and mommy-and-me styles.
MEDIA RELEASE__The Swiss Community Historical Society will hold a Victorian Valentines Workshop for Kids on Saturday, February 14 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Swiss Heritage Center (Schumacher Homestead), 8350 Bixel Rd.
Children ages five and older are invited to attend. The registration fee of $1 for members and $3 for non-members includes materials, such as paper doilies, stickers and ribbons to craft several Valentines.
Esther Howland received the designation of the “Mother of the American Valentine,” for popularizing Valentine’s Day greeting cards in the late 1800s.
