It's maple syrup month and the maple trees on the Probst farm in Orange Township are Maple trees are tapped. Here's a screen shot from a video taken when snow was on the ground earlier this month. To watch the video click here - the link is to the Bluffton Farmers' Market Facebook.
Local ragtime and blues guitarist Matt Keeler will perform at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series.
Keeler has t1- years experience teaching music in the Catholic schools of Putnam County. He has taught private guitar and saxophone lessons for nearly 20 years.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Bluffton University (’99) and a master's degree in musicology (ethnomusicology) from Bowling Green State University (’05).
-The first time Bluffton and Columbus Grove met in Girls basketball this season, Columbus Grove came away with a double overtime win. The second meeting looked to be headed the same way. But the Bulldogs made a layup with two seconds left to defeat the Pirates 42–40. The loss ends Bluffton’s season at 17-7. (see.www.blufftonpirates.com)
Dean Walters, a Bluffton University senior biology and pre-medicine major from Avon, Ohio, spent this past summer in Rockville, Md., researching cancer with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the newest branch of the National Institutes of Health.
Laura (Green) Bellman graduated from Bluffton in 2003. She received her nursing degree from Rhodes State College in Lima. She is married to Bernard (Bernie) Bellman, who graduated from Bath in 2002, and they have two children, Henry, age 4, and Marie 2.
I've seen you around town in scrubs. What do you do and where do you work?
I am a registered nurse and I work at Blanchard Valley Dialysis in Findlay.
