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The West Central Ohio Land Conservancy (WCOLC) invites the public to attend an event celebrating the farm community with a program highlighting farmland.

  •  6:00-8:00 p.m.
  • August 11
  • Lauer Historical Farm
  • 800 Roush Rd, Lima

The speaker for the evening will be radio and TV personality, Dan Wilson. The host of “In Ohio Country Today,” Wilson is an advocate for farmland preservation and is dedicated to preserving Ohio country.

On August 5, the Bluffton High School golf team hosted five other schools for the Bluffton Pirate Invitational Tournament at Bluffton Golf Club. Bluffton finished third in the event.

UPDATED: Rescheduled for August 16.

The Drainage Installation Field Day scheduled for tomorrow at The Ohio State University at Lima campus farm has been moved to Tuesday, August 16, 2022, due to field conditions brought on by the recent rains in the area.

Field demonstrations by the Ohio Land Improvement Contractors of America, or OLICA, will begin at 8 a.m., Tuesday, August 16, and will continue in an open-house-style format throughout the day until 3 p.m. at the field on the corner of Thayer and Reservoir roads.

On August 5, fans of sixties rock and the '60s Survivors Band brought their lawn chairs to the gazebo at Cherry and Main Streets. As the sun set, the stage lights took on a golden glow.

By Paula Scott

Have you known Bluffton long enough to become immune its charms or blind to its faults? Or do you fall somewhere in the middle of that spectrum?

Chicago-based journalist Eddie Arruza recently visited the village and has created two videos about Bluffton. His interest in Bluffton gives us an opportunity to see the town through fresh eyes.

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

The world’s oceans hold many secrets. Sea monsters, sunken treasure and ghost ships fill our imagination with what’s below the surface of the mighty deep.

These great ponds do not, however, hold ownership to all watery mysteries. Surrounded by the Big and Little Rileys and several seemingly bottomless quarries, what Bluffton lacks in sea monsters, it makes up with mysteries held below its own waterlines.

The Buckeye takes but does not give back

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