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On Wednesday, August 20 at 2:30 p.m., Ryan from Country Travel Discoveries will be at the Bluffton Senior Center to present photos and information about upcoming trips.

The program includes information on Yellowstone in Winter and Wonders of Iceland. Both trips are being offered in 2026 by the Bluffton Senior Center.

The English Lutheran Church will provide the community meal on Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St.

Meals start at 6:00 p.m., are free and open to the public. A good will offering will be taken to help the local food pantry.

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/

Home opener vs. Ben Logan on August 22

By Cort Reynolds

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. 

Home opener is August 20 vs. Pandora-Gilboa

By Cort Reynolds

SHAWNEE__The visiting Bluffton High School volleyball team fell in straight sets to non-league foe Shawnee on Monday, August 18.

The Indians beat the Pirate girls 25-20, 25-20, 25-23.

Bluffton fell to 0-2 with the defeat. Shawnee improved to 1-0 after the win.

Kendall Stackhouse led the Pirate girls by hammering eight kills, and Lainey Grandey drilled six kills.

By Cort Reynolds

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. 

PIRATE SCORES

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