Bluffton First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., invites all to participate in Holy Week services, beginning with a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13. The service will include faith stories by the youth who will be baptized on Easter Sunday.
On Good Friday, April 14, the Bluffton community ecumenical Cross Walk begins at 11:30 a.m. at English Lutheran and ends with a worship service at First Mennonite at noon. Various members of the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association will participate and Dr. Lucia Unrau is the organist.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University baseball team struggled to generate any offense in a 4-1 loss to rival Defiance College on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Bluffton fell to 11-11 overall and 4-8 in the Heartland Conference, while the Jackets improved to 8-17 and 5-7 in the HCAC.
He’s the result of mixing coffee with an arts and crafts show, town fireworks, a Thanksgiving celebration, several downtown promotions and all of the activities of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Phil, owner of Common Grounds coffee shop, is the new part-time director of the Bluffton chamber. With the job comes the best office view in the village – the very front room in the second floor of the town hall.
Of course, lots of other things come with the job for Zimmerly, who became chamber director earlier this month.
This is the second part of a two-part series on the reopening of Gallery 323. Selected photos of current art for sale are at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton’s newest downtown retail store offers items shoppers will discover only in Bluffton – art by local artists.
The store, Gallery 323, originally opened ahead of the Christmas season in 2014. The idea for the business was to highlight area artists by providing them with a location to sell their work.
Did you know there's a bell in the clocktower of the Bluffton town hall. There is, and now you can hear it. Phil Zimmerly, new director of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, says that Bluffton residents will start hearing the bell ring frequently. A story on Zimmerly is below. If you want to hear the bell ring, click here for a video you won't forget.
One of Bluffton's great blue herons enjoys watching Riley Creek from a tree branch. This one, photographed with a cell phone camera spends mornings in the creek, or above it, near Campus Drive.
