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By Paula Pyzik Scott, Icon editor
Here's a work in progress: Bluffton Icon Highlights for June 2025. You'll find our April and May 2025 Highlights at the Bluffton Public Library in the print news collection and online HERE. A location at Bluffton University's Musselman Library is coming soon!
A June 23 hearing has been scheduled before Allen County Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey Reed in the state’s case vs. Ronald Powell, who is charged with allegedly shooting at Bluffton Police Department officers in December 2021.
Powell, age 53, faces five charges including felonious assault, discharge of firearm on or near prohibited premise, failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and having weapons while under disability with firearm.
BLUFFTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FACEBOOK__Many thanks to our 2025 Summer Read Donors!
Bluffton Baking Co.; Bluffton University; Butterfly House; Community Markets; Dough Hook; Fort Wayne Tin Caps; Friends of the Bluffton Public Library; Goodness & Grace Bakery; Kings Island; Kira's Flipside Grill; Langan Family Finds; LuLu's Diner; Luvu A Latte; Miller Ferries to Put-in-Bay and Middle Bass Island, Ohio; Ohio Renaissance Festival; Ohio State Fair; Ohio State Parks; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; roots By Strattons/Stratton Greenhouses; Sara's Sweets; Seneca Caverns; Shannon Theatre; Shirley's Popcorn; Springfield Fireworks; The Story Room Bookstore; Young's Jersey Dairy Thank you!
JUNE 16 MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the first annual Music at the Gazebo, a free summer concert series debuting in downtown Bluffton.
Presented by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce and GROB Systems, this new community event will be held on the lawn of Bluffton Presbyterian Church (112 N. Main Street) every other Thursday evening from June 19 through September 25, 2025, with music beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Lewis Metzler Naylor passed away on June 12, 2025, in Goshen, IN, from a heart attack. He was born in the old Goshen Hospital in Goshen, IN, on July 14,1942, to Deltha (Metzler) Naylor and Wilbur Jerald Naylor. He lived in Nappanee, IN, until finishing high school in 1960. He volunteered in 1964 for 1-W Service with the Mennonite Central Committee with his late wife, Ann Musselman, where they were teachers for three years in Musoma, Tanzania. Ann died on October 27, 2010. He married Belle (Detwiler) Duerksen on June 22, 2013.
Blanchard Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, now offers the nationally recognized "Own the Bone" program at four convenient locations throughout the region. Patients can now access the program in Findlay, Bluffton, Carey, and Ottawa.
