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By Cort Reynolds

McCOMB__The Bluffton baseball team was tied with McComb 5-5 after seven innings on Tuesday, April 14 when the game was suspended by rain and lightning.

No makeup date to resume play has been set yet.

The Pirates (0-3) are slated to entertain non-conference foe Ottoville (1-5) on Wednesday. The Big Green pounded Pandora-Gilboa 19-3 on Tuesday.

Bluffton (0-1 NWC) then hosts winless league rival Delphos Jefferson (0-7, 0-2 NWC) Thursday.

By Cort Reynolds

VAN WERT__The Bluffton High School boys tennis team defeated visiting Wauseon 4-1 on Monday evening, April 13.

The Pirates improved to 5-1 with the decisive victory.  

Seniors Grady Coonfare won easily 6-1, 6-1 at first singles.  

Senior Isaiah Kohli lost a tough three-set bout at second singles 6-2, 5-7, 10-7.

Sophomore Toby Yarnell recorded a double bagel win at third singles by a 6-0, 6-0 score.

Expansion includes Putnam and Hancock Counties

MEDIA RELEASE__Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Children and Youth (DCY) Director Kara Wente today announced a new partnership between DCY and Ohio 211 to expand services to all 88 counties, ensuring every Ohioan can access local community resources no matter where they live. The statewide expansion will be fully implemented by the end of June 2026. 

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Agenda for April 9 meeting of Orange Twp. Trustees

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By Paula Pyzik Scott

For four days in March, the Global Communication Club at Bluffton High School hosted 10 students and 2 English teachers from Ogawa High School in Japan. 

The Japanese students stayed with local host families, attended classes at Bluffton High School and participated in a variety of cultural and community activities. They also visited with employees at SumiRiko Ohio, a supplier of anti-vibration products to the auto industry, which is headquartered in Japan.

FROM BSC NEWSLETTER__On Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m., Dan Groman from the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society, will host a meeting about Bluffton's "museum in the making."

Several exhibits are in the works: John Dillinger gang robbery in Bluffton, Dr. Boyd Travis model trains, interurban railways and the Dixie Highway through Bluffton.

This program is free and open to the public.

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