Better examine that phone book in your mailbox very closely
Bluffton, Ohio, postal patrons learned today that they really live in Bluffton, Indiana.
And, this is no April Fool’s joke.
The Bluffton 2017 Community Directory, published and distributed by The Lima News, a subsidiary of Civitas Media, includes a significant earth-moving event.
The 32-page booklet, designed as a Bluffton, Ohio, landline telephone directory includes no Bluffton, Ohio, residential phone numbers, except for the cover, advertisers, and an index of Allen County, Ohio, phone numbers.
Instead, the booklet contains a 14-page alphabetical listing of telephone numbers with 260 area codes, which is Bluffton, Indiana.
There are no Bluffton, Ohio, 419 phone numbers in the alphabetical listing in the booklet.
The phone listings go from A to Z.
The list starts with:
• A Harvest of Health Nutrition and Wellness Center,
760 N. Main St., Bluffton, 260/824-1600
And ends with:
• SJ Zuercher, 816 S. Johnson St., Bluffton, 260/824-3750
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