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 A second-straight near-record construction season is underway across Ohio. This year, the Ohio Department of Transportation will invest $2.3 billion into the state’s roads and bridges, just shy of the record-$2.4 billion investments made in 2014 and 2015.

This construction season will include 1,098 projects, 26 valued at more than $10 million. Workers will pave 6,945 miles of roadway – enough for a two-lane road from Seattle to Key West, and repair or replace 1,281 bridges.

Speaker is director of African and African American Studies, Earldom

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Author and professor Dr. James Logan will present “The Art of Hip Hop, Religion and Culture in Civil Society” during Forum at 11 a.m. on April 11 in Yoder Recital Hall. 

This is the 2017 Keeney Peace Lecture at Bluffton University. The event is free and open to the public. 

Logan is a professor of religion and professor and director of African and African American Studies at Earlham (Richmond, Ind.) College. His teaching and research cover many areas including relationships between religion, ethics and politics in civil and public life.

The Boehr Award will go to the best of show

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The Bluffton University art department will present the 50th Juried Student Exhibition from April 3-28 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will showcase work created this academic year by students in university art classes or supervised independent studies.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

What appears to be Bluffton, Ohio, is actually Bluffton, Indiana

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Bluffton, Ohio, postal patrons learned today that they really live in Bluffton, Indiana.

And, this is no April Fool’s joke.

The Bluffton 2017 Community Directory, published and distributed by The Lima News, a subsidiary of Civitas Media, includes a significant earth-moving event.

The 32-page booklet, designed as a Bluffton, Ohio, landline telephone directory includes no Bluffton, Ohio, residential phone numbers, except for the cover, advertisers, and an index of Allen County, Ohio, phone numbers.

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Brooklyn Moser, Bluffton fourth grader, concentrates on her water color art work during the March 30 children's art lesson at the Bluffton Public Library. Janette Reineke teaches the class. Students ages 8 to 10 created art in the style of Claude Monet, impressionist.

Watch for elementary list coming

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Here is Bluffton High School’s third quarter Honor Roll for the 2016-2017 school year:  (Middle school is below the high school list)

9th Grade – all A:

Olivia Burner, Gabe Colley, Luke Denecker, Xavier Dunifon, Madison Fleece, Baylor Garmatter, Erin Hotmire, Sumner Kibele, Tucker Neff, Ana Neufeld Weaver, Annalise Nisly, Danielle Novak, Hannah Perry, Jared Piercefield, Austin Reynolds, Raina Runk, Libby Schaadt, Sophia Smucker, Maria Spallinger, Zachary Taylor, Logan Winstel

10th Grade – all A:

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