FROM FACEBOOK__The Black Swamp Area Council of Scouting America has named Jonah Brown as the District Executive for the Arrowwood District.
Brown is an Eagle Scout from Bluffton and has served as Program Director for Camp Berry Summer Camp during the past two summers. He will also serve as Camp Lakota Summer Program Director for the 2027 camping season.
Scarecrows and pumpkins will make way for Christmas in just a few short weeks in downtown Bluffton. As part of America 250 celebrations, Vickie Garmon's art classes at Bluffton High School are making Yankee Doodle Christmas Trees, which will be displayed during the November 19 Jingle Bell Stroll, a program of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce
FROM FACEBOOK__The Cub Scouts of Troop 3256 always leave the world a little bit cleaner and [Bluffton Clean Up]'s heart a little bit lighter during trash pickups. The joy, laughter, plant identification, and hauling out those huge weird objects off the creek bank that take a team effort or one adult that is now really dirty lol. It's always just so much fun. I seriously love it.
Thank you so much to the parents and the scouts for coming out!
Let’s start with a little bit about yourself. Do you have family? Where do you live?
I do have a family. I have been married for 100 years--not quite, but a long time to my sweetheart, we have two children, three grandchildren and many bonuses who've just added on, who call us Mama, or Pops, and/or Grandma, and Pops. So we have a village.
MEDIA RELEASE__Bluffton High School is proud to recognize senior Nora Matthews as the September 2026 Student of the Month. The daughter of Brendon and Renee Matthews of Bluffton, Nora has distinguished herself through academics, athletics, leadership, the arts, and service to her school and community.
Nora has excelled academically throughout her high school career, maintaining a 4.0 GPA while taking college-level courses in mathematics at Rhodes State and English and sociology courses through the University of Findlay. Her scholarly achievements have been recognized throughout high school. Matthews obtained academic honors in ninth-grade science and history, tenth-grade English, and eleventh-grade design, chemistry, and government. She is a member of the National Honor Society, BHS Student Senate, and serves as senior class president.
Ryan Dunlap, the elementary PE teacher at Bluffton Schools, has been awarded the Ohio School Boards Association's Northwest Region Humanitarian Award. Bluffton School Board member Jeremy Scoles explains, "This prestigious award recognizes individuals who demonstrate the ethics of kindness, benevolence and sympathy in their schools and communities."
The presentation took place at North Baltimore High School on October 8.
