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Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2013 - 7:23pm

Rachael Lewis, Bluffton schools strings instructor, welcomes Bluffton seniors to the January senior citizens breakfast at the Bluffton Middle School. The junior high and senior high strings performed. Click for a video.

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Princess Grismore 1914 - 2013

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2013 - 2:48pm

Princess Gladys Long Grismore, 98 died at 11:50 am January 8, 2013 at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. 

She was born May 2, 1914 in Lima to the late Floyd and Louise (Lauck) Long.  She also had a stepfather Omar Johnson who preceded her in death.  On August 31, 1935 she married Fred L. Grismore and he died November 29, 1981.

She was a former employee of Lima Printing and Ledger Company.  She lived all of her married life on the Grismore Farm near Pandora. 

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Obituaries
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Tickets on sale Jan. 15 for OHSAA state wrestling tourney

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2013 - 2:30pm

Public all-session ticket sales for the 2013 Ohio High School Athletic Association State Individual Wrestling Tournament begin Tuesday, January 15, at 10:00 a.m., and plenty of tickets are expected to be available.

The state tournament is February 28 and March 1 and 2 at the Jerome Schottenstein Center on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus. The cost for an all-session ticket book (five sessions) is $75 each for the Entry and Club Levels and $55 each for the Terrace Level.

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Sports
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Flu widespread in many states, including Ohio, and Red Cross urges flu shots for all

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2013 - 2:22pm

Widespread flu activity is being reported across much of the country and the American Red Cross urges people who have not yet gotten a flu vaccine to get vaccinated now.

The Red Cross also has steps people can take to prevent the spread of the flu virus during what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says is the worst influenza outbreak in several years in the United States.

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Regional news
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Pianist Schimpf performs on Bluffton Artist Series Jan. 31

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2013 - 2:14pm

Tickets are still available for the next performance in the 2012-13 Bluffton University Artist Series, by German-born classical pianist Alexander Schimpf at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in Yoder Recital Hall.

Schimpf has risen to international prominence in the last four years by winning several prestigious competitions. At the 2011 Cleveland International Piano Competition, his final-round performance, accompanied by the Cleveland Orchestra, inspired a standing ovation as well as the Audience Favorite Prize.

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Bluffton University
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The color purple for the year's chamber membership sticker

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 8, 2013 - 8:20pm

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce 2013 membership window stickers will be distributed at Friday's chamber breakfast. Members not attending the breakfast will have their stickers mailed to them.

This year's sticker follows a five-year tradition of changing the background color. These replace the familiar orange stickers of 2012.

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Regional news
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