Regional news

Have you been bitten by the photography bug? The Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan park district invites non-professional photographers to enter the 45th annual Nature Photography Contest. Deadline for entry is Sunday, October 31. Competition categories are:

  • Specific Nature Subject – Flora
  • Specific Nature Subject – Fauna
  • Landscape
  • Parks Potpourri

For "Parks Potpourri," photos must be taken in a park operated by the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District (including Bluffton's Motter Metro Park, 10740 Columbus Grove-Bluffton Rd.)

Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, provides this full weather report for September 2021. Hotter than average highs. Highest temperature: 90. Lowest temperature: 47.

Bluffton schools are on a three-hour delay this morning, Tuesday, October 5.

The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation Board of Trustees approved grants totaling $581,949 at the September board meeting. This total includes seven responsive grants, two president’s discretionary grants and 51 donor advised fund grants. 

Responsive Grants 

Responsive grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations that seek to meet community needs and  match the goals, objectives and priorities of The Community Foundation. Grantseekers must  submit a written grant proposal for consideration. Applications are reviewed four times per year. 

The full month of September 2021 weather from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

At 8:45 a.m. the Bluffton Police Department announced that for most of September 27, Grove Street will be closed between Jackson and Lawn for water line repair.

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