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Ada’s volleyball team held our annual Dig for a Cure event earlier this month on Monday, October 6 with Pandora Gilboa.  Together, both teams raised a grand total of $2,602. 

Wilma J. Laeufer, 92, passed away on October 26, 2025, at Lima Memorial Health System. Wilma's service will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, October 31, 2025, at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

FROM BEVS ALERTS__Bluffton High School football will host Western Reserve this Friday night, Oct. 31, in the first week of the OHSAA Football Playoffs. Kick off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. and the gates will open at 6:00 p.m. 

TICKETS
Presale tickets available at www.ohsaa.org/tickets

On gameday: Cash tickets at gate; Adult $12; Students $5

Students and spectators are NOT permitted on the field or sideline.

Powered noise makers (speakers, air horns, sirens, whistles, etc.) are not allowed.

This seemed like a good week to check on an old friend, Bluffton's monumental oak in Maple Grove Cemetery. With the area enjoying peak fall color, this 300+ year old specimen of white oak is lush and green. Is this tree a good candidate for Bluffton's America 250 celebrations?

By Cort Reynolds

Four Bluffton High School football players made 2025 All-Northwest Conference first team in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.

By Paula Pyzik Scott

On Friday, October 17, DeMarco Wealth Management Group, 109 N. Main St., celebrated a new location, renovated office space and growing team under a new name. Edward Jones Financial Advisor Ryan DeMarco, ABFP, CRPC, first established an office at 111 N. Main in late 2019-early 2020. He has expanded the business in the historic Greding Hardware store location following extensive renovations.

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