Bluffton Lions Club accepting 2025 Citizen of the Year applications
Please submit nominations by March 11
MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Lions Club is seeking nominees for the 2025 Citizen of the Year Award. The award was established in 1981 to honor a person, couple, or individual representing a group, who has selflessly given time, effort, and talent for the benefit of those in the Bluffton area, and whose dedication and achievements have profoundly improved the quality of life of the people in this area.
The nominee may be living or deceased within the last year. This year’s winner will be honored at a banquet on April 21, 2026.
Nominations this year will be accepted through March 11, 2026. Paper nominations should be returned to Bluffton Lions Club, P.O. Box 223, Bluffton, OH 45817.
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Stories Posted This Week
Friday, September 18, 2026
- September 18 Bluffton Schools athletics lineup, streaming
- Bluffton welcomes incoming class from nine states
- September 2026 Bluffton Lions Club update
- Pirate volleyball sweeps Lima Central Catholic
- Pirate boys soccer win vs. Kenton
- Ramseyer shares grandmother’s fight for citizenship during Bluffton Constitution Day Forum
- How Dillinger robbed a Bluffton bank
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Phyllis Ann Reynolds, 77, worked at Citizens National Bank
- Jane Ann (Diller) Thurman, 75, was a nursing home administrator
- Julie C. (Field) Amstutz worked for Putnam County ESC
- Pirate volleyball sweep vs. Wayne Trace
- Findlay Patrol's Donovan promoted to sergeant
- Pirate girls soccer win vs. Delphos Jefferson
- Sept. 14 Bluffton Council: Request for RTA bus signs, pre-1950s unused Maple Grove plots tallied
- Mornings with Mommy resume at Trinity Lutheran