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Lunch menus for Bluffton High School and Middle School-Elementary for November are now available.

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First National Bank of Pandora has installed ATM machines at the University of Findlay's Koehler Center and on the main campus at Bluffton Hospital.

The Bluffton machine can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the hospital cafeteria in Bluffton. The University of Findlay ATM is available for use during the Koehler Center's normal operating hours, typically 6 a.m. to 11p.m.

Bluffton Hospital has been named one of only 36 inpatient hospitals in the United States to receive the 2010 Press Ganey Summit Award. This is the second consecutive year Bluffton Hospital has received this honor.

The Press Ganey Summit Award is given to health care facilities that sustain the highest level of customer satisfaction for three or more consecutive years.

According to Press Ganey Associates, Inc., Bluffton Hospital has ranked in the 99th percentile nationally for inpatient satisfaction for more than four consecutive years.

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The 24th annual Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce Blaze of Lights is Saturday, Nov. 27. Here is the latest information about this year's festival.

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As you know, after the Blaze of Lights this fall, another big event is coming up. The 150 years of progress, Bluffton's sesquicentennial, will be held June 24 to July 2, 2011.

At the current time we need people to contact Terry Mullenhour and volunteer to design and embroidery a quilt square. She has the squares available and the information for the sesquicentennial quilt.

Luke's staff at the front window

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2,744 VIEWERS HAVE CHECKED OUT THE ICON ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

A six-point buck crashed through the front window of Luke's Bar and Grill, North Main Street, around 3 p.m., spent 30 seconds in the bar, and exited quickly from an open back door that Luke's employee Roy Rayl opened for it.

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