Above) Top L-R, Ashley Stratton, Charlie Stratton, Dan Stratton, Susie Stratton and Steve Stratton. Below) Steve Stratton watering flowers on Bluffton's Main Street.
By Liz Gordon-Hancock
Stratton Greenhouses celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Owners Steve and Susie Stratton have continually reinvented the business over the years to provide beauty and art in plant form to their customers and surrounding communities.
The Bluffton Police Department provided the following docket of calls and responses for June 2024
POLICE DOCKET – JUNE 2024
June 2
Officers responded to the 100 block of Garmatter Street for a criminal damage complaint.
June 3
Officers arrested a Lima resident for driving without a valid driver’s license following a traffic stop in the area of Snider Road near Main Street for a speeding violation. The case is pending in Lima Municipal Court.
Officers responded to a business in the 100 block of South Main Street for a complaint of a subject passing bad checks.
June 4
Officers responded to the 100 block of North Jackson Street in reference to a theft complaint.
Last year, the first Bluffton History Day told the story of when John Dillinger’s gang robbed the Citizens National Bank in 1933 and the Bluffton residents who experienced it.
By Paula Pyzik Scott
On Saturday, August 10, the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society will celebrate the Bluffton Fire Department with a Bluffton History Day program that recreates an 1898 photograph of volunteer firefighters shooting water over Main St. as a test of the new Village water system.
Robert G. Orr, a longtime resident of Burke, VA, passed away at the age of 77 on July 12, 2024 after a courageous battle against cancer. He was the devoted husband and best friend of Mary (Roderick) for more than 53 years.
