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Followed by BCE workshop on small business HR issues

Bluffton University is the sponsor and host of the free Friday morning, Nov. 11, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.

Following breakfast is a free Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs Friday Workshop for small business owners on human resources.

• Breakfast 7 to 7:30 a.m.
• Chamber meeting 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
BCE Friday Workshop - following breakfast

By precincts, local voters were highest percentage voters in Allen County

Bluffton, Beaverdam and Richland Township voters with Republicans outnumber Democrats 2 to 1, support the GOP candidate in each local precinct, on Nov. 8, according to unofficial reporting by the Allen County board of elections.

CLICK HERE FOR ENTIRE COUNTY PRECINCT VOTE.

Precinct results follow:

Precinct    Clinton-D       Duncon -I      Johnson-L     Stein-G           GOP

Focus on rewarding producers and rural residents in clean water efforts

The Blanchard River Watershed Partnership is partnering with The Ohio State University on a study of how to reward producers and rural residents for their efforts to improve local water quality in the Blanchard River watershed. 

The study will be conducted by Dr. Richard Moore, emeritus professor of the School of Environment and Natural Resources and Yanting Guo, Ph.D student in the Environmental Science Graduate Program at The Ohio State University.

This plate provides a lot of information with just six letters. It belongs to David Retterer, Ada, mayor. You'll find it on a bright red Ford F150 pickup.

How many other university towns in the U.S. could you pull this off?

It is soon to be on the Bluffton Hospital staff

Photos by Jamie Nygaard

There’s a new pirate in Bluffton. It’s “Robo Pete.”

It will eventually be on the staff of Bluffton Hospital, and was named by the Bluffton second grade class in a school-held name the robot contest. The school has Pirate Pete as its mascot, thus the name Robo Pete makes sense.

Here’s the story.

On Nov. 3 Bluffton elementary, middle school and high school students witnessed a demonstration of The Women’s Center at Bluffton Hospital’s da Vinci Surgical robot.

Path connects Bentley Road to university nature preserve, Riverbend, Maplecrest and Willow Ridge

MANY PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY -
Connectibility, safety and community cooperation joined hands as the Lions Way Augsburger Road Pathway opened last week. Here’s what was accomplished at the Oct. 31 ribbon cutting and dedication:

• Distance shortened from Point A to Point B.
Point A being Maple Crest, Willow Ridge, Riverbend, Augsburger Road residents and the Bluffton University Nature Preserve; Point B being Bluffton proper.

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