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Where do you start first? Saturday's 10th annual Bluffton Fall Festival has so many choices! 

The community-wide festival offers lots of family-oriented events, free and open to the public, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.

To help in your decision-making, here's the entire list of events going on all over town.

One of the activities at the Swiss Homestead during Saturday's Bluffton Fall Festival is bread baking in the society's outdoor oven. Here's a photo from last year's festival.

Bluffton Hospital is offering a new outpatient treatment that destroys pre-cancerous tissue in the lining of the esophagus.

The procedure, called endoscopic radiofrequency ablation therapy using the HALO System, was recently featured in the New England Journal of Medicine as a highly effective treatment for eradication of Barrett’s esophagus, a pre-cancerous condition that affects one to two million adults in the United States each year.

The annual Fall Festival at the Homestead will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. by the Swiss Community Historical Society of Bluffton and Pandora.  The Schumacher Homestead is located at 8350 Bixel Road between Bluffton and Pandora, and the event is free and open to the public.  

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The Dough Hook, 117 N. Main St., Bluffton, has all your tailgating supplies and the package is only $50, according to Shawn and Marlena Ballinger.

It includes:

• 6 brats
• 12 ground sirloin patties
• 1 pound breaded chicken strips
• 6 sausage rolls
• 8 skinless hot dogs
• Bag of veggi chips
• 1 pound mix nuts

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The Bluffton University volleyball was looking to avenge its recent loss to local rival Ohio Northern when the Beavers invaded the King Horn Center on Wednesday, Sept. 25, but ONU had none of it as the home team made quick work of the Beavers, wrapping up its second three-set victory over Bluffton in five days. Ohio Northern improved to 10-6 following the win, while Bluffton slipped to 7-10 with a fourth setback in its last five matches.

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