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For next 5 days during sewer project

Spring Street will be close from today (Jan. 24) between Riley Street and Snider Road, according to Ryan Burkholder,  Bluffton police chief.

The road closing will take five days while the sewer project is currently underway.

Mike Hawk of Grob visits with students on Tuesday

Bluffton High School juniors and seniors interested in an apprenticeship program at Grob Systems of Bluffton have the opportunity to learn about it on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

Mike Hawk of Grob will visit BHS and explain the program.

According to Grob's website, its apprenticeship program allows students to learn in a hands-on environment.

Each student rotates through the various manufacturing and assembly areas of GROB’s production facility while also attending Rhodes State College.

You can't miss this plate if you drive through Ada. You'll see it on a cream-colored Cooper S. This driver must be a Washington Nationals baseball fan, or we've read this completely incorrectly.

4 council, 3 school board, 2 township trustees

Several seats will be on the November 2017 ballot in Bluffton village, Richland Township and school board races. The general election is  Nov. 7.

According to the Allen County Board of Elections, the following seats will be on the ballot this year.

Perfect example - the birthday cake mix story posted below

A Bluffton Community Assistance (CAP) food pantry volunteer assisted a client whose young child was having a birthday.

The client couldn’t afford a birthday cake. When the mother came to the food pantry and discovered boxed cakes supplies and frosting, there were tears in her eyes.

Bluffton middle school and high school students, who brought donations from Christmas food drives, learned about this story.

As Ed Yeager, CAP board president, shares: “Following that, ‘whooom’ - bunches of baking supplies and cake mixes came pouring in.”

Bluffton could be part of a Cincinnati-Toledo route

This is the second in a two-part series on a proposed national and statewide bicycle route network that could pass through Bluffton’s Main Street. It needs Bluffton council’s support for it to take place. That second reading of legislation on the route is on the Monday, Jan. 23, council agenda. CLICK HERE for the first story in this series.

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