The Bluffton University softball team split a non-conference doubleheader with Adrian College on April 10, 2022. Bluffton moved to 10-12, while Adrian improved to 7-15 on the season.
Bluffton fell behind 9-1 midway through the fifth with the lone run coming in the second when Kryshel Dales (Defiance/Ayersville) doubled and crossed the dish following a Lily Tate (Mount Gilead/Northmor) base hit.
Registration is now open for the July 16 Bluffton Ride to Remember, an event organized by the Bluffton Lions Foundation to raise funds for the Bluffton bike and pedestrian pathway. Visit www.RidetoRemember.net for more information.
The Bluffton Arts & Crafts Festival, a long-standing tradition in downtown Bluffton, has been adopted by Blended Roots, a shop that features local artists, crafters and makers at 246 Cherry Street. Manager Katelyn Gainok is seeking 40 vendors, live music and food vendors/trucks for the June 4 festival, which will take place at and around the consignment shop, which is in the former Riley Creek Mercantile building.
In the early 1920s a Bluffton business on Spring Street served as a depository for dead and dying livestock. Providing an important service for farmers, it was a shipping point to a Kalida glue factory. Even though the Bluffton business wasn’t a glue factory, people referred to it that way, since it was the collection point for the factory. Some animal parts contain collagen, historically used in making glue, from hooves and bones of horses, mules and cattle. The need for collagen to produce glue created a demand for dead livestock.
Ronald "Ron" J. Reese, 72, passed away on April 8, 2022, at 11:44 am, at Blanchard Valley Hospital in Findlay, surrounded by his loving family.
Ron was born December 21, 1949 in Bluffton, OH, to the late Lehr and Evelyn (Moyer) Reese who survives in Pandora, OH. On September 16, 1972 he married Joan (Schaublin) Reese who survives in Mt. Cory, OH.
Sally Jeanne (Hogan King) Reeder, 90, died April 7, 2022 in her residence at The Springs of Lima, OH.
She was born April 30, 1931, in Waltham, Massachusetts, to Edgar Jay and Jeannette (McGarrity) Hogan. The family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, New York, Maryland, and Florida, all before her graduation from Rayen High School in Youngstown.
