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Including a praire breakfast, dressing up as a pioneer and hearing from Laura

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Remember when you first read "Little House on the Prairie"?

Reading and living the story is an annual rite for Bluffton third  graders. Here's Beth Raeburn's class on May 12, as the teacher explains:

"The entire third grade reads 'Little House on the Prairie,' by Laura Ingalls Wilder, each spring as a novel in our reading classes. 

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Rhodes State College announced its 2017 Spring Semester Dean’s Lists for part-time and full-time students.
 
Part-time students:
To be eligible, a student must be enrolled in at least six but not more than 11 credit hours and earn a 3.5 grade point average or higher.

Bluffton
Karissa Sue Dorn
Blane Jared Miller                                                             
Morgann Alexa Rode
Jacob Dylan Spencer

Pandora
Jordan Rae Guthrie
Brooke Juliann Kuhlman

Two orchestras directed by Rachael Lewis performed at May 12 contest

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Bluffton fifth-sixth grade string orchestra and Bluffton Junior High orchestra both received "excellent" ratings in competition earlier this month.

PHOTOS OF BOTH ORCHESTRAS ARE BELOW -

The fifth-sixth graders entered Class C and Junior High entered Class A in the OMEA large group adjudicated event at Parkway High School on May 12. Rachael E. Lewis is the director of both orchestras.

She will attend Bluffton University in the fall

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Sydney Staton is the May Bluffton High School student of the month.

A senior, she is a member of the Show Choir, Chamber Choir, Math Team and played softball, track and soccer where she was the team captain.

She was awarded the "Student of the Year" in Statistics and in Photography, received the top score on the Ohio Math League Test and was awarded the academic excellence scholarship.

Her hobbies include photography and Photoshop. Her pos-secondary options were at Rhodes State College where she took Calculus.

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Candace Downing, a Columbus Grove High School senior, is the recipient of the 2017 Barbara Fleming Memorial Nursing Scholarship. The scholarship is sponsored by Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio (MHCO), of Bluffton and Pandora.

Downing plans to attend Wright State University in the fall, where she will enroll in its nursing program. Her parents are Craig and Lynn Downing of Columbus Grove.

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Candace Downing, daughter of Craig and Lynn Downing of Columbus Grove, was awarded this year's Bluffton Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship. She will attend Wright State University school of nursing in the fall.

The Auxiliary established a one-time $500 scholarship for an area student entering into a health/medical field of study.

To be eligible, the applicant must be a senior at an area high school and ranked in the top one-third of the class.

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