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One pink flowering crabapple tree in the spring is a beauty to behold. Two together are astounding.

Can you locate in your mind the place in Bluffton where you might see these two trees today?

Answer: Between Chiles-Laman Funeral Home and Jon and Mandy Kinn's Main Street residence.

Fortman Insurance, 115 N. Main St., Bluffton, will hold a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 22. The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will conduct the ribbon cutting.

The event is in recognition of the company ownership being passed from one generation to the next.

Bluffton Police Department - Public Docket March 2016
Total Calls for Service -460

March 3
Officers arrested Scott Beach, 43, Bluffton, on an outstanding warrant out of Hancock County.

March 4
A Defiance resident reported child custody/safety issues. 

March 8
Police were called to an E Elm St residence in response to an argument over personal belongings.   

Clifford Alton Harris, 95, died April 20, 2016, at his residence. Clifford was born May 19, 1920, in Vanlue, Ohio, to Charles and Bertha (Beck) Harris who preceded him in death. On Dec. 30, 1939, he married Thelma Cupp Harris who preceded him in death on May 8, 2009.

Clifford retired from Dana Corporation in Lima.  He was an avid carpenter, was a master craftsman and fisherman.  Clifford was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

Pass it on – Bluffton Cash Mobs are back - on Thursday.
 
This month's Cash Mob host (Thursday, April 21) is Town and Country Flowers, 121 S. Main St., Bluffton, with cash mob hours from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
 
During cash mob hours the store will offer 40 percent off one item purchased, according to Connie Kruse.
 
In addition, anyone attending the Cash Mob may sign up for a $50 shopping spree at the store. 
 
Town and Country Flowers
121 S. Main St.
419-358-4040

It was contract night on April 18 for the Bluffton school board as many contracts for this spring and for next school year were approved.

Action involved:

• Seventeen certified contracts for 2016-17
• Four classified contracts for 2016-17
• Twenty-nine supplemental contracts for 2016-17

Also, the board approved several Saturday school supervisors and classified employees.

Class fees and handbooks for elementary, middle and high school for 2016-17 were also approved.

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