Carol Bradley worked with three Bluffton police chiefs, three Bluffton tax administrators, three village administrators and five Bluffton mayors. On March 21, she'll leave all that behind as she retires from work at the "front desk" of the Village of Bluffton.
Since Feb. 5, 1990, Bradley has handled all utility payments, billings, answered the village telephone and dealt with the public as a village employee in the Bluffton town hall.
Three area Mennonite Churches received grants from Everence Financial (formerly Mennonite Mutual Aid) in 2011 to help provide needed financial assistance to help people facing financial challenges.
First Mennonite, Bluffton, received $2,890, Grace, Pandora, received $1,750, and St. John, Pandora, received $3,000.
In 2011, the Everence Sharing Fund gave more than $924,000 in matching grants to 2,049 families across the country.
This 1991 red Corvette hatchback could be parking in your driveway on Sept. 29. It's this year's Bluffton Lions Foundation charity Corvette raffle car. The vehicle's unveiling was March 6. Click for details.
Bluffton will celebrate International Women's Day on Thursday, March 8, with a 7 p.m. concert in the town hall starring feminist and activist Sue Jeffers of Kent, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.
Eloise Marie (Sommer-Basinger) Kepner, 87, died Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at Walnut Manor in Walnut, Ill. She was born April 8, 1924, in Bluffton, Ohio, to Walter and Cora Gratz Sommer and married Bryan Basinger in 1942.
She lived most of her life in the Bluffton area, working at Triplett Electrical Instrument Company and the Bluffton Senior Citizen Center.
Bluffton voters cast ballots today in Ohio's primary election. Rick Santorum was Bluffton's unofficial Republican voters' winner. Also, unofficially, the Bluffton one-quarter percent capital improvements income tax levy passed.
