Bluffton school board focuses on year-end matters during its final regular meeting of 2015 on Monday. The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. in the elementary media center.
The agenda includes:
• Long-term substitute contract
• Substitute teacher approvals
• Saturday school supervisor hire
• Students for Other Students coordinator
In other action, the board will approve a school calendar for 2016-17 and will set its 2016 reorganization meeting for 7:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 11.
A slew of year-end ordinances and resolutions face Bluffton council members on Monday in the final regular session for 2015.
Anticipated action includes the final reading of the 2016 appropriations ordinance. A 13-page draft of the appropriations is part of the council packet, which is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Other action includes prohibiting semi-trailers on Lake Street, parking or storing inoperative vehicles in the village, regulating parking in the municipal parking lot and regulating parking on portions of Main Street at Jefferson Street.
Margie Geiger, 80 of Bluffton died Dec. 18, 2015, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Lloyd "Walt" Early, 93, of Jenera, died on Thursday at the Good Samaritan Home in Arlington. Walt was born on Aug., 7, 1922 in Allen County to the late Schuyler C. and Josephine L. (Bundy) Early. He was married to Marilyn W. Betz, Marjory E. Robbins and Betty A. VanDeventer and they all have preceded him in death.
8:37 P.M. SHANNON THEATRE, MAIN STREET - Harrison Ford wasn’t standing in line, but Leah was there. (Leah Conley, not Princess Leah.)
So was a force of fans awaiting the one-minute after midnight premier of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
The CNB time-temp read 37 degrees as people bundled and huddled up all the way from the Shannon Theatre to Common Grounds, patiently killing time until ticket sales start at 11:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Moser goes over her Christmas list with Santa Claus during his visit at Bluffton Familiy Recreation last Saturday. Santa will be at The Dough Hook this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. It's your final chance to visit the Man in the Red Suit in Bluffton before Christmas.
