Bluffton once again feels like a college town with the start of the Fall 2025 semester at Bluffton University. Classes resumed on Monday, August 18 and the opening convocation takes place on August 19 with Megan Bowsher, MSW, LISW, clinical psychotherapist at Creative Hope Counseling in Bluffton, Ohio, speaking on the topic “Imperfect, Unfinished, and Brave: The Courage to Become Your Real Self.” Photo from www.facebook.com/BlufftonUniversity/
BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School football team is coming off one of its best seasons ever and looks to continue that momentum into 2025 behind an explosive offense.
The 2024 Pirates fashioned a 13-2 record and advanced all the way to the Div. VI state semifinals, where they lost to eventual champion Coldwater.
VAN WERT__The Bluffton High School girls golf team lost a dual match to Fort Loramie at Hickory Sticks Golf Course in Van Wert on Monday, August 18.
The Pirate girls lost 178-227.
Katie Bauman led Bluffton with a nine-hole score of 50.
FL’s Brooke Gehret was match medalist after firing a 40. Four Redskins - Kim Billing, Madison Pleiman, Macy Schafer and Ava Schafer - each carded a 47 to tie for second.
Ada is throwing a big party in celebration of football--and especially footballs and football teams that are "Made in Ada." The 9th annual Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival on the evening of Saturday, August 23 will have all of the music, food and games that are essential to a great party, as well as plenty of Bulldog, Polar Bear and NFL spirit.
Ada is the home of the Wilson Football factory which supplies balls for all levels of play up to and including the NFL and the Super Bowl. For some pre-festival activitiy, the Wilson Football Factory store will be open from noon-4:00 p.m. You can explore the new facility's lobby, which is filled with memorabilia and a Wilson gift store at 517 E. Highland Ave, Ada, Ohio.
