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The Bluffton Tree Commission will celebrate Arbor Day at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 27, in a
planting at the village park to honor Bluffton's men's and women's garden clubs. The event is open to the public. 

In other news the Tree Commission has identified approximately 15 street trees that need to be replaced.

Bluffton University will mark its annual May Day weekend May 2-5 with traditional alumni reunions, student activities and graduation events, including the 100th edition of the Maypole dance with which alumni are familiar.

The dance features 16 first-year students who wear colorful costumes and dance in pairs around the Maypole, weaving streamers together. This year’s performance, part of the 11 a.m. May Day ceremony Saturday, May 4, on the Centennial Hall lawn, adds a ninth couple of “legacy” students, who have longstanding family ties to Bluffton.

The Bluffton Diamond Sports will hold a raffle ticket fundraiser, which offers several prizes, according to Erinn Prater, president of the organization. Tickets are $10 each and will be available from players, coaches and parents of players.

The raffle ticket prizes follows:

 

Those yellow and white flowers of spring are in full bloom in front of Ropp Hall at Bluffton University.

By Kyle Stover

The Bluffton University baseball team split a crucial conference doubleheader with Transylvania on Saturday, April 20. Errors were the story in game one when the Beavers fell 5-1, but they rebounded with some clutch hitting in game two to win 6-4 while staying in the race for the HCAC tournament.

 

The Bluffton University softball team discovered that it had in fact packed bats for the trip to Hanover when the Beavers came out and scored eight times during the first two innings of game two on Saturday, April 20, 2013.

After an 8-0 six-inning shellacking at the hands of the Panthers in game one, Bluffton recovered from its two-hit, five-error performance with a 10-2 victory for a crucial series split. Bluffton's win assured the Beavers of their seventh straight Heartland Conference tournament appearance under Coach Bruder.

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