Alice Basinger packed the house with parents, friends and music lovers on Monday. The annual Bluffton Elementary Christmas Concert filled the Bluffton High School Gymnasium with Kindergarten to fifth grade musicians. Click here to view photos and videos.
The results are in. Here are winners of this year's residential Christmas lighting contest in Bluffton.
The contest is conducted by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, which awards $500 in total prize money.
One of the guiding rules is an attempt to include different residential display winners each year. Also judges, led by team leader Lauren Beasley, reviewed all lighting displays inside the village limits. In addition, residents who requested to be judged were given special consideration.
Prizes are Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce gift certificates.
The third issue of Slippery Elm, The University of Findlay’s annual literary journal, is available for purchase.
According to journal editor and Associate English Professor Dave Essinger, a total of 661 submissions were received, up from 416 in 2014. Consequently, the acceptance rate was approximately six percent, down from about eight percent last year.
if you are 58 or older, you recognize this person.
It is Miss Theresa "Teddie" Slusser. She was a Bluffton College graduate, held a master's degree from Bowling Green and taught several history and social studies classes for seventh graders through high school students.
After her official retirement in the mid-1960s she returned as a substitute teacher. She also was the village treasurer for several terms, which was an elected postion.
