The library will be closed on Jan. 1, 2, and 18. Due dates will be adjusted accordingly.
Bluffton Public Library staff is ready for January. Here's what's on the library's calendar for the first month of 2016.
Warm up with a cup of hot tea. During Hot Tea Tuesdays, free hot tea and other light refreshments will be available for browsing patrons from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Also on Tuesdays, area teens and tweens (6th grade and up) are invited to Chill Zone. Come participate in crafts, play games, snack, and talk at 3:30 p.m.
It's 5 p.m. on Monday. Here's the Little Riley looking toward Bluffton University at the Kibler-Bentley Road bridge. Bluffton emergencies officials are watching the water rise in case of necessary evacuation in low-lying areas of the village.
Robert Kreider of North Newton, Kansas, died at 4 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 27. He is a former president of Bluffton College. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Donald Guy Sterrett, 59, of Bluffton died at 12:40 p.m., Dec. 25, 2015, at Lima Memorial Health System. Donald was born Nov. 11, 1956, in Lima to the late Cyril and Dorothy Bockey Sterrett. On Dec. 1, 1979 he married Lynda Badertscher Sterrett and she survives.
Don was an electrical supervisor at Materion Brush, Elmore. He attended Lima Community Church of the Nazarene. He was a graduate of Lima Central Catholic High School and Owens Tech. College.
Bluffton police posted a flood warning announcement on Nixle. Here is the message:
Advisory: The NWS has issued a flash flood watch. Those along the Riley Creek should consider necessary precautions and actions.
The NWS has issued a flash flood watch for our area. The heaviest rain will likely be late tonight and overnight, making it difficult to determine and/orestimate potential impacts.
We encourage those located near and along the Riley Creek to consider moving items to higher ground to avoid a sudden rush over night during the storm.
