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The Bluffton Senior Center Board of Directors has named Dave Campbell as the Volunteer of the Year Award. Dave is a Senior Center weaver and helps make the woven placemats that are sold in the store. Dave also sits on the board, helps with small jobs around the center and helped move furniture when the center recently had new flooring installed. Pictured here with BSC director Tonya Meyer.

By Paula Pyzik Scott

Numerous national news outlets have recently highlighted a December 24, 2025, update to the United States Postal Service manual on postmarks and postal possession. The update emphasizes that postmarks represent the date an item is processed, not the day the item is received.

Mail collected at the Bluffton, Ohio, post office is postmarked in Columbus. Items travel from Bluffton by box truck to Lima and then are transferred to a larger truck for the second part of the journey.

FROM BSC NEWSLETTER__There will be one Community Meal in January because of the Holidays. Ebenezer Mennonite Church will serve the meal on January 15 at 6 p.m. The meal is free and open to the public. A goodwill offering will be taken to help the local food pantry.

MEDIA RELEASE__ The Board of Trustees of Bluffton Public Library has announced its meeting schedule for 2026. Meetings will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the library's Board Room at 145 South Main St., Bluffton. 

No meetings will take place in July or December.

Board members are Bob Beer, president; Emily VonStein, vice president; Carrie Phillips, secretary; Amy Lehman Mikesell, Robert Scott, Chanda Smith, and Nancy Yeager. 

Board meetings are open to the public.

MEDIA RELEASE__Women in Business will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 15 on the third floor of Town Hall for an Intro to Jazzercise class, led by Chase Eikenbary.

Attendees will walk to the Jazzercise studio for an intro class with Chase Eikenbary, owner of Jazzercise Bluffton, co-owner of Eikenbary Landscaping and Vice President of Project Management at Regional Growth Partnership.  

This class is free. Chase promises both cardio and stretching, flexible to all ages and abilities. 

By Cort Reynolds

LIMA SHAWNEE __The visiting Bluffton High School girls basketball team rallied late to nip non-league rival Lima Shawnee 49-48 on Tuesday, January 6.

Pirate sophomore guard Maelee Miller poured in a season-high 20 points, including 11 big markers in the fourth quarter. 

She knocked down four two-point goals and one trey in the final stanza to lead the Pirates to the comeback win.

Bluffton trailed by 11 points going into the fourth period, but the visitors outscored Shawnee 19-7 over the final eight minutes to win by one.

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