Roger Edwards, president of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association board, holds the first batch of peanut brittle created on Nov. 6 at the Center. Bluffton's most popular holiday candy sells for $5 a pound at the center until this year's supply is gone.
The Bluffton High School post-prom committee would like to thank all the friends and local businesses who were raffle basket sponsors and red hot purse sponsors in our recent raffle.
Birchaven Village has been named to the list of Best Nursing Homes 2017-18 by U.S. News & World Report. This is the third time Birchaven has been named to this prestigious list.
To qualify as a Best Nursing Home, facilities had to earn an average of 4.5 stars or better during 10 months of federal reports ending in August 2017 and had to consistently meet certain performance standards set by U.S. News during the period, such as earning at least four stars in the CMS overall rating for all 10 months.
Prior to 1897 Bluffton residents' water came from wells. The town-wide water system developed shortly after that.
Here is one of the most unusual photos of Bluffton you will ever see. It's a test of water pressure in 1897 or 1898. The test occurred during the opening of the Bluffton water plant. It demonstrated that the pressure enabled water to shoot higher than Main Street buildings, a plus for the fire department.
