Over 40 hikers toured the Motter Metro Park paths on Saturday morning. The program was part of the Allen County Metro Parks take a hike in the autumn program.
Special note about Monday’s council meeting: • 7:30 p.m. – council will tour the Bluffton fire station on North Main St.
• 8 p.m. – council will be in session in the third floor of the town hall
Bluffton council will hear an extensive report from its streets, lights and alleys committee on Monday.
On Monday, Bluffton school board will consider action to eventually place two renewal levies on the March 15, 2016, ballot.
The levies are:
• Three-year renewal for the school’s permanent improvement percent income tax levy, which expires Dec. 31, 2016.
• Ten-year renew of the Bluffton Public Library’s one mill (1.0) levy for the purpose of maintaining current level of resources and services. It also expires on Dec. 31, 2016.
Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, will present a program Tuesday, Oct. 27, on her newly published book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control.”
Beginning with a reception at 3:45 p.m., the event is free and open to the public in Bluffton’s Musselman Library Reading Room.