Above) Jason Cox with Lori Loewen and Kathie Amstutz
On October 1, Jason Cox became the new Bluffton State Farm Agent following Ed Reichenbach’s retirement. Reichenbach had been Bluffton’s first and only State Farm Agent, starting out of a home office on Mound Street in 1966.
The new agency will remain at the 341 S. Main location in Bluffton. Staffers Lori Loewen, Office Manager, and Kathie Amstutz, Customer Service Manager, will both be staying on with the new agency.
The following 17 land transfers took place in the Bluffton Exempted Village School District for the month of September 2024 as reported on the websites of Allen County Auditor Rachael S. Gilroy and Hancock County Auditor Charity A. Rauschenberg.
Address - Sale Date - Sale Price - Land Use - Owner - From/To
RESIDENTIAL
104 CHESTNUT LN – 9/4/2024 – $284,900 – Residential vacant land – From A Matter of the Heart Inc to Dennis & Carolyn Maurer
316 PARKVIEW DR – 9/5/2024 – $69,900 – Residential vacant land – From Three S Development Group LLC to Dean & Jennifer Reichenbach
Above L-R) Mitch Kingsley and Ben Stahl, council members; Mayor Richard Johnson; Paul Inniger, Takeo (Tony) Endoh, Joe Brinkman of SumiRiko, Ohio; and Ashley Gleason, Tyler Gleason and Jonnathan Bonifaz of the Bluffton Soccer Club.
SumiRiko of Ohio, Bluffton Soccer Club and Village of Bluffton collaboration
By Paula Pyzik Scott
On September 26 ground was broken on the Bluffton Soccer Complex to be developed on land donated by and adjacent to SumiRiko Ohio on Snider Rd near the Bluffton Community Pool and Bluffton YMCA.
On September 17 the Bluffton Lions and the Village of Bluffton held a ceremony dedicating the addition of a bike and pedestrian pathway along Jefferson St./State Route 103 from County Line Road to I-75, following close on the heels of a September 3 dedication of the new County Line pathway.
The S.R. 103 Lions Way segment improves access to housing, a hotel, restaurants, gas stations, shops and other businesses along this stretch of road. This is the busiest and fastest section of road in the Village. Some 20 businesses are located on or near the new pathway.
Above L-R) Mark Reed of GROB Systems Inc., Apollo Superintendent Keith Horner, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, Ada School Superintendent Julie Simmons and Ada HS Principal Dan Lee.
By Paula Pyzik Scott
On Wednesday, September 25, Lt. Governor Husted presented Apollo Career Center with $1.1M in Career Technical Education funds through a grant collaboratively written with Ada Exempted Village Schools and Allen East Schools.