Bluffton's unfinshed mural gets some artistic touches this week. The mural is on the former Groves' Bear building at the corner of Main and Elm. When finished, the mural will show a visual timeline of the community - from right to left. Sarah Hartzler, Bath High School art teacher, oversees the project.
During a three-day swim event July 21-23 he will discover just how fast he can swim.
The Bluffton 12-year-old has qualified to compete in the Junior Olympics through his USA swim team at the Putnam County YMCA. The event is at Miami (Ohio) University. He will compete in three events: 50-, 100-, and 200-yard breaststroke against other 11- and 12-year-old boys.
Are you nervous? Riley just shrugs his shoulders. We take that to mean “maybe, or sort of.”
The biggest event of Bluffton’s summer is Tuesday night Aug. 1. And, as always, it’s all free.
It’s the fourth annual National Night Out celebration held at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool.
The Bluffton Police Department, in conjunction with the Pandora Police Department, sponsor NNO. Bluffton, Beaverdam and Pandora Fire and EMS Departments also participate.
NNO is held from 6-9 p.m. with free pool admission all day (rain date Wednesday, Aug. 2).
Dr. James G. Diller, 88, a plastic surgeon in Toledo, Ohio, for more than 20 years, died on July 3, 2017.
He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Jean (Miller); daughters, Collette Chattopadhyay, Janelle, Jeanine, and Nicole Diller; a son, Christopher Diller; seven grandchildren, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Simca and Luke Bouma, Elena and Celia Diller, James and Grant Murphy; and a sister, Ruth (Diller) Sawyer and a brother, Timothy Diller.
In 2016 the Bluffton Airport Advisory Commission requested the village to name the Bluffton Airport terminal as the Dottie Anderson Terminal. That request was approved and the sign is now on the terminal.
Anderson, a lifelong pilot at Bluffton Flying Services, died Dec. 8, 2012.
She graduated from Bluffton High School and Bowling Green State University. She began her flying career as a pilot of small aircraft while still in her teens and at one time built her own plane, a Pitts Special.
