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Safer alternative cited in agency’s latest move in opioid battle

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The powerful painkiller Oxycontin, widely blamed for kickstarting the nation’s opioid crisis, will no longer be newly prescribed for injured workers in the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation’s system starting July 1.

Following a recommendation from BWC Chief Medical Officer Terry Welsh, the agency’s Board of Directors voted today to drop the drug from the BWC formulary and replace it with what Welsh calls “an equally effective but harder-to-abuse drug” named Xtampza ER.

March's Bluffton school menu

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The Bluffton school menu for March is now posted on the school website. CLICK HERE for the menu

 

Project slated for completion by mid-June

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Work on the West Elm Street improvement project begins on Friday, according to the village.

Hohenbrink Excavating is the project contractor. Some work was completed in the fall and the entire project is slated to be finished by mid-June.

The street may be closed during the day, but will be open after working hours.

The following notice went to property owners in the work project zone:

The Village of Bluffton understands it has been a long winter and the condition of West Elm Street continued to deteriorate, but the end is in sight.

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As February moves toward March we will await to see if the next month moves in like a lion or lamb. Here’s the daily high and low readings for the past seven days.

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The Icon saw this plate in an ONU parking lot in Ada on a red Kia.

May 6 filing deadline for mayoral and council independent candidates; Aug. 7 deadline for school board, township trustees candidates

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Filing deadlines in early February reveal the appearance of the May 7, 2019, Ohio primary election. Here’s the ballot for voters in the Bluffton school district.

• Bluffton Exempted Village School District
­­Income Tax renewal 0.5%, Permanent improvements, 3 years

• Bluffton Exempted Village School District
Levy renewal 4.244 Mills, avoiding an operating deficit, 5 years

• Allen County RTA
Sales and Use Tax additional 0.1%, Providing Transportation Service, 10 years

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