Above) Terry Mullenhour, Triplett Foundation board member, presents a $1,020 check to Amy Byers, executive director of Bluffton Family YMCA for youth volleyball and soccer supplies. Below) Amber Gladwell will receive a $2,000 scholarship to continue her education at Bluffton University. This is the second year she had received the Triplett scholarship.
First National Bank of Pandora has opened its second location in Lima at 1991 Bellefontaine Road, near the intersection of State Route 117 and Greely Chapel Road.
Attention venues and performers, if you are providing live music in the Bluffton or Ada area, your gig can be shared at no charge on our Community Calendar. Email [email protected] or tag @blufftonicon on Facebook.
PANDORA __ First National Bank (FNB) has promoted Brendon Matthews as President, succeeding Todd Mason, who will remain CEO and serve as Chairperson of the Board.
Citizens National Bank (CNB) of Bluffton has been named one of the best-performing community banks in the nation by The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA).
The annoiuncement explaine, "All community banks in the U.S. were divided into categories by asset size: Less than $300 million; $300 million to less than $1 billion; and $1 billion or more. CNB just surpassed the $1 billion in assets threshold in January and was named 24th in the nation for that category."
"Community bank" is an unofficial designation that indicates the organization has less than $10 billion in assets.
Ohio floriculture was worth more than $233 million in 2023, according to Ben Torrance, State Statistician, USDA NASS, Ohio Field Office. This was down 4 percent from the $243 million sold in 2022.
