• Your vibrant Main Street, quiet tree lined neighborhoods, and the presence of Bluffton University offer many opportunities and an enviable quality of life for residents.
• It’s the kind of community that tempts visitors to take a serious look at real estate listings.
•The village feels safe and welcoming.
• Connectivity is a high priority in the village.
These are among the comments made about Bluffton by Leslie Pittenger and Linda Cromer, judges from America in Bloom who visited Bluffton in July.
A book released in time for Christmas by the Bluffton Icon takes you there.
“The Bluffton We Never Knew,” photographs from our first half century, 1861 to 1911, is at the printer now. The book, with 198 pages, includes over 175 black and white photographs of Bluffton.
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Forty-four building permits in Bluffton from Jan. 1, through Oct. 10, show $2,120,428 in construction projects took place or are underway in the village.
Of that figure $1,460,128 was for residential construction and $660,300 was for commercial and industrial construction.
This total does not include the Ohio Department of Transportation's renovation of the Bentley Road overpass.
The largest commercial/industrial project was filed on Aug. 23 by Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., for a new building with a $400,000 cost estimate.
Your final chance to visit Bluffton's Farmers' Market is Saturday. The market, located in the Citizens National Bank parking lot, will close for the season.
It will reopen on the first Saturday of May next year. The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce operates the market. Hours on Saturday are from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Bluffton voters have an opportunity to hear Bluffton council candidates offer their views on village issues in a candidate forum at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, Allen and Hardin for Election Action and Democracy (AHEAD), and the Bluffton Icon sponsor the forum.
Lisa Robeson of Bluffton, professor of English and chairperson of the Department of English at Ohio Northern University, is the forum moderator. She is also a member of AHEAD.
