By Cort Reynolds
OTTAWA - The Bluffton boys track and field team finished fifth at the annual 10-team Ottawa-Glandorf Gold Medal meet Friday evening.
The Lady Pirates came in eighth out of nine squads. Liberty-Benton edged Oak Harbor for the girls team crown. Meanwhile Van Wert out-pointed second-place Oak Harbor for the 10-school boys title.
Wyatt Lovell tied for first place in the high jump to post the top Bluffton finish. Eden Antrim also came in second in the boys 1600 meter run.
By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
The number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the United States, globally, and in Ohio.
On April 15, 2021, the US reported 74,374 new COVID-19 cases with 2,164 from Ohio and four from Hardin County. This week Ohio contributed 2.9% of the country’s cases.
Hancock County is in the top five reported counties in Ohio with 304.8 new cases per 100,000 people and Allen County is reporting 160.2 per 100,000.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Bluffton baseball team lost 16-1 to Miller City Friday evening in non-conference action.
Youthful Bluffton dropped to 0-11 with the defeat. MC improved its record to 8-2 with the victory.
The Pirates scored their lone run in the bottom of the first, but MC had already tallied four runs. They added five runs in each of the third and fourth frames, plus two more in the fifth.
MC banged out four triples and three doubles among their 15 hits in the run-rule shortened, five-inning game.
It’s contract night at the Bluffton school board’s April meeting tonight.
The board will act on 16 certified contacts, 13 classified contracts, 5 extended service contracts and 36 supplementary contracts for the 2021-22 school year.
All contracts are listed in the board’s agenda attached to this story. In addition, certified contracts are posted below this story.
Several other actions in preparation for next year’s school year are also part of the agenda. The board will also set school fees for elementary, middle school and high school classes.
Former Bluffton resident Jedd A. Emans, 57, of Lima, died Saturday, April 17, 2021, surrounded by his family at his residence. He was born in Bluffton on Dec. 21, 1963, to David and Karen Emans, who survive in Pandora.
Jedd graduated in 1982 from Pandora-Gilboa High School and in 1986 from Bowling Green State University, College of Business.
Jedd went on to hold an accomplished and successful career in the tire industry.
