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The following five land transfers took place in the Bluffton Exempted Village School District for the month of September 2025 as reported on the websites of Allen County Auditor Rachael S. Gilroy and Hancock County Auditor Charity A. Rauschenberg.

ADRESS - SALE DATE - SALE PRICE - LAND USE - FROM/TO

AGRICULTURAL

7878 E Lincoln Hwy – 9/29/2025 – $3,300,000 – Agricultural Vacant Land – From Resa LLC to Racetrac Inc

RESIDENTIAL

By Brittany Grider, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist, Pediatric Hospitalists of Northwest Ohio

It's always a joyful moment when a new baby is born. Everyone in the family wants to come meet the new addition. A few days later, this precious little baby is struggling to breathe and needs to be in the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis.

RSV is a virus generally present in the winter, usually at its worst in January and February each year. We are starting to see cases of RSV in our community.

Cornelius “Neil” C. Kehler, 93, of Bluffton passed away October 2, 2025 at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton.

Mark LeRoy Weidner, age 82, lived an extraordinary life because he was an extraordinary man.  He lived through many beautiful chapters and passed away peacefully beside his family on September 27, 2025 in Lititz, PA. He had a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was born the second of four children in Allentown to LeRoy and Viola Weidner. He met his future wife Susan in the church nursery at First Mennonite of Allentown.

Betty Jean Hamilton, 89, passed away October 1, 2025 at Willow Ridge - Frieda House in Bluffton. Betty was born June 20, 1936 in Bluffton to the late Walter and Beulah (Slusser) Hamilton. 

Betty was a 1954 graduate of Cory-Rawson High School. She then received her bachelor's degree in education from Bluffton College and later her master's degree from Bowling Green State University. 

By Cort Reynolds

ST. MARYS__The visiting Bluffton High School girls soccer team played to a 0-0 tie with non-league foe St. Marys on Thursday, September 30.

The Pirate girls are 7-7-1 overall after their first tie of the season.  

Meanwhile, St. Marys is now 5-6-4 after the knot.

Bluffton put two of its six shots on goal. St. Mary’s fired 20 shots, nine of which were on target.

Bluffton senior keeper Kynzie Ewing saved all nine SM shots. Roughrider goalie Bella Hertenstein made two stops.

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