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Northbound entrance ramps will close Monday

Continued road work on Interstate 75
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 5, 2020 - 1:00pm

Interstate 75 road work will impact several Bluffton and Beaverdam north and southbound off ramps in the next few weeks. The ramp closing schedule follows: 

NEW IMPACT
• Bentley Road entrance ramp to I-75 southbound will close July 6 for five days.
• Bentley Road exit ramp from I-75 northbound will close July 6 for five days.
• SR 696 exit ramp from I-75 southbound will close July 6 for 14 days.

UPCOMING IMPACT
• SR 696 entrance ramp to I-75 southbound will close July 12 for 14 days.

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Senior Center hopes for a July re-opening

Trips canceled or postponed through the end of October
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 3, 2020 - 1:59pm

Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., hopes to reopen sometime in July, according to Tonya Meyer, director.

“We have been in talks with the Ohio Department of Aging and the Ohio Senior Center Association to come up with best practices, she said, adding, “we hope to be able to open sometime in July.”

When the center finally is able to open, the first month will be one-on-one services only.
Examples:
• Enter the center for library material
• Riding the exercise bike
• Visit with staff
• Volunteering

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Jason Althaus on OSU-ATI dean's list

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 3, 2020 - 1:43pm

Jason Althaus, a 2019 Bluffton High School graduate, made the Dean's List at OSU-ATI  during the spring term. He is a double major in Crop Management and Soil Conservation.

 

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Delbert Hall celebration of life service July 11

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 3, 2020 - 1:37pm

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, July 11, at the Columbus Grove VFW, 218 E. Sycamore, Columbus Grove, from 5 - 8 p.m. Delbert died on March 14, 2020.  Arrangements have been entrusted with Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton. 

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Treva Crawford volunteered at Bluffton Hospital and Senior Center

She also worked at Triplett and Mennonite Home
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 3, 2020 - 1:27pm

Treva E. Crawford, 97, died July 2, 2020, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Treva was born May 3, 1923 in Toledo, Ohio, to the late Floyd and Christine (Stotts) Harris. On April 11, 1942, she married Raymond Crawford who preceded her in death on March 7, 1983. 

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Hugh Downs was known here as Bluffton's most famous drop out

Lima native attended Bluffton College; later hosted NBC's Today Show
Posted by Fred Steiner on July 3, 2020 - 1:07pm

We knew him as Bluffton College's most famous dropout. Then Bluffton College president, Robert Kreider, termed that phrase of Hugh Downs, who attended Bluffton College in the late 1930s.

Later he earned an honorary doctorate degree from Bluffton and was known as one of Bluffton’s “three D’s” – Downs, Phyllis Diller and Elbert Dubenion.

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