It's a Bluffton garage sale weekend thanks to the SHANNON Service Club and the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center. Here's the details:
S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club - at The Centre, 601 N. Main St.
• Friday, Feb. 24 - community craft and garage sale, 4:30 to 8 p.m.
• Saturday, Feb. 25, community craft and garage sale, 9 a.m. to noon
25/75 raffle drawing, 11:30 a.m.
Admission to the sale is $1 with children 12 and under free.
“You did not choose this road, but you traveled it as well as could ever have been imagined under the circumstances. Your profound and memorable journey—the tears and the accomplishments—during the 2007 baseball season and beyond, is being recognized and honored this evening.”
February is generally not golf season, but this year's different. With temperatures in the 60s obviously the golf season is underway at Bluffton Golf Club. Here, Rick Schaublin focuses on his next shot. Golfing with Dave Reichenbach, the two say this is the third time golfing this week at the Bluffton course. Last Saturday vehicles packed the parking lot as golfers spent their day on the links.
Janice L. Umphress, 89, died on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, at 2:57 a.m. at Memorial Hospital of Union County in Marysville, Ohio.
She was born on Jan. 27, 1928, in Lima, Ohio, to Lee and Rhoda (Hammer) Wingate who preceded her in death. On June 28, 1946, Janice married Maurice "Morrie" Umphress and he died on Aug. 7, 2010.
Janice was a homemaker. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Ada and the Women's Guild of the church. Janice was a 1945 graduate of Bluffton High School. She was a member of the Ada Senior Citizens.
There's a new video in town and it features local actors - who really aren't acting. They are simply being themselves.
Called "Love Your Library," the five-minute video offers an assortment of opinions from library patrons in a fun way. After all, it is "Love Your Library Month."
BLUFFTON, Ohio - With the winter sports coming to a close the 2017 baseball season is only days away. The Bluffton University Baseball Team is preparing for its spring break trip to Florida, taking advantage of an unseasonably warm month of February.
