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.
By the end of the working day today (Friday, Oct. 20) the Bentley Road Interstate 75 overpass will be open to traffic, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The southbound entrance ramp (to Lima) onto I-75 may be delayed until power for a traffic signal at the ramp is open. At 8:30 a.m. this morning the status of the signal was not yet resolved.
The overpass, which includes a bridge over the Norfolk Southern Railroad and Interstate 75 was closed on June 5 for repair.
Photos by Jamie Nygaard
They didn’t do this when we were in school! Wish they did.
Earlier this month and for the fourth year, all Bluffton seventh graders participated in an Outdoor Camp learning experience at Camp Berry Boy Scout Camp in rural Findlay.
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Kyle Leatherman, middle school principal, said that the two-night, three-day session had a focus on science and mathematics. Ninety-four students participated.
Lauren Moser is the seventh grade science teacher.
