Just when you think you know everything there is to know about Bluffton, a photograph like this shows up.
Ask your grandparents to explain this. If they can’t help, keep reading.
It’s a photograph of the "floating" pool that served swimmers in Bluffton as early as the mid-to-late 1920s (based upon the style of swim suit in the photo) to the early 1950s.
It was constructed on the east bank of the Buckeye and then was moved to the quarry where it floated to allow swimming.
Although it sounds like a very long way off, it is possible that in 2022 two separate projects from the current State Route 103 corridor study could get underway.
Choice One Engineering hosted the second public meeting on July 6 of its corridor study. The entire project is still in the early planning stages.
The study was funded by $50,000 from Allen County Regional Planning and $15,420 from the Village of Bluffton.
The study considered points on State Route 103 from the Norfolk Southern Railroad to Pocono Drive on the east side of the interstate.
Bluffton council will hold its 2018 budget hearing at 8:15 p.m. Monday during the July 10 council session. The proposed budget projects a general fund with a beginning balance of $2,925,690. The budget contains 21 pages of information.
Once the budget is approved – it is a fiscal roadmap for the village - the council acts on 2018 appropriations. That action generally takes place in the final meeting of 2017. The appropriations are much more clearly defined that the budget.
The proposed budget is attached at the bottom of this story.
Here's the mass bicycle start of the third annual Ride to Remember bike ride. This year 212 bikers took advantage of the ride. The mass start was at 8 a.m. Saturday at Bluffton Family Recreation. The next shot shows bikers on Dixie Highway south of town. Watch for lots more photos this week. CLICK HERE FOR THE MASS START VIDEO.
