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The Quarry Farm Nature Preserve in rural Pandora is celebrating National Hat Day on January 15.

To join in the fun, wear your favorite warm hat and take part in their Annual Hat Day Night Hike from 6 to 7:30 p.m. If the sky is clear, you'll see the waxing moon just two days before it is the full January Wolf Moon. Cookies and hot chocolate will follow in the Seitz Family Pavilion.

From Damaging Addictive Behaviors Anonymous

The answers to the following questions are nobody’s business but your own. If you can answer yes to any of these questions, it may be time you took a serious look at what this behavior might be doing to your life.

Questions to help you decide if you have D.A.B. (Damaging Addictive Behavior):

At 6 p.m. on January 25, Anne Coburn-Griffis and Sophie the Pig of The Quarry Farm Natue Preserve will join the Bluffton Public Library for a fun animal book discussion. The event is open to adults and teens.

The book to be discussed is The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery. Register at the library by January 18 to check out your copy of the book.

This program is planned to be held in person at the library, 145 S. Main St.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is asking hunters in Hardin, Marion and Wyandot counties to submit their deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing for the remainder of the 2022 deer hunting season.

By Robert McCool

Let's celebrate librarians.

Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr's (“All The Light We Cannot See”) 2021 release, Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, ISBN 978-1-9821-8967-9) is dedicated to librarians: past, present, and future. Some of the novel occurs within a library in whatever time and location is being reported in these joined stories of five distinctly different characters. 

By Cort Reynolds

Bluffton High School Boys Basketball

The visiting Bluffton boys held off a late rally to beat Fort Jennings 50-45 in a non-conference basketball battle Saturday night, January 8.

Bluffton held a slim 24-22 lead at halftime, but they extended the lead to 42-32 with a key 18-10 third period run.

FJ rallied with a 13-8 final stanza, but came up short as Bluffton canned eight of 12 foul shots down the final stretch.

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