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Income eligibility guidellines for free and reduced meals are in this story

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Bluffton Child Development Center, 325 County Line Road, Bluffton, announces its participation in the USDA-funded Child and Adult Care Food Program, according to Francine Donathan, director.

The attached chart shows income eligibility guidelines for free and reduced price meals effective July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017.

 

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What's for lunch in the Bluffton schools during October? The answer is here.

CLICK HERE for the October school menu.

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Monday's rainfall was recorded as nearly one-half inch by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Open the attachment below for the daily weather summary from Sept. 1 to 26.

Descendants and many other visitors spent Saturday at the Swiss homestead

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You can go home again. Many did on Saturday.

If you are - or are related to - a Schumacher, Diller, Suter, Basinger, Zimmerly, Amstutz, Neuenschwander (and its spelling variations), Hilty, Bixel, Suter, Moser, Luginbuhl (and its spelling variations), Burkholder, Steiner, Badertscher, Gratz, Bucher, Augsburger, Geiger, Althaus, Gerber… you get the idea.

MORE PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY -

Descendants of Swiss immigrants to Bluffton-Pandora have a homestead where they and all their friends can view rural life in the 1840s.

And we offer lots of photos to prove our point

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The weather was perfect - make that incredible.

The attendance was remarkable. The enthusiasm was just what you’d want at a small-town fall festival. And it took place in Bluffton.

What was your favorite part?

There were many: home-business expo, farmers’ market, pumpkin face painting, food, quilt show, tractor show, music, historic exhibits, pony rides, horse and wagon rides. Shall we go on?

The 13th annual Bluffton Fall Festival fell on a Saturday with warm temperatures and just the right amount of sunshine.

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Spotted this plate in Ada. Working on a mean, but we need help. Any suggestions?

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