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This time we had advance notice. The rains came and continue. The Riley rises and continues to rise.

The set of photographs with this story show scenes in Bluffton photographed between noon and 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 27.

OPEN ATTACHMENT AT BOTTOM OF THIS STORY FOR MORE PHOTOS.

• Watch the Harmon Field Video.

• Watch the Buckeye quarry Video.

Earlier today  two messages from the Bluffton Police Department follow:

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9 a.m. Saturday morning - Here's a snapshot of the Storm Authority Radar over Ohio.

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The U.S. Weather Service continues its Flash Flood Watch for Allen and Putnam counties.

Here is its message: 

A portion of northwest Ohio, including the following areas: Allen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and Van Wert, until 2 p.m. this afternoon.

Rain will continue through Saturday afternoon.

Radar estimates and Spotter Reports suggest that between 1 and 3 inches of rain has already fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of around an inch are expected by the afternoon.

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Closer and closer.

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Here's the weather map at 5 p.m. on Friday. Get your umbrella out and your sump pump ready to go.

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The Bluffton University Board of Trustees has a new chairperson for the first time since 2001.

The trustees’ recent spring meeting was the last for Morris Stutzman, who retired from the board after 33 years, including the last 14 as chairperson. Kent Yoder, a trustee and Middlebury, Ind., businessman, assumed the chairperson’s duties from Stutzman, a Wooster, Ohio, attorney.

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