

How did a hospital come to Bluffton?
It's beginning goes back to 1908 in a location on Main Street Dr. J.J. Sutter standing on the porch of the Bluffton Sanatorium - now the...
Feb 7, 2024


It's 1944-45 and here is Mrs. Murray's first grade
Lots of familiar names like: Mathewson, Zimmerman, Herr, Moser, Hilty, Scoles and others Meet students in Ruby Murray’s first grade in...
Feb 6, 2024


It's the 1943-44 school year
Meet the BHS class of 1955 in Meredith Stepleton's first grade It’s the 1943-44 school year in Bluffton. Here’s Meredith Stepleton’s...
Feb 5, 2024


A 400-ton monster passing through Bluffton
Right out of the Lima Locomotive Works shops in 1941 From the Oct. 16, 1941, Bluffton News - A giant, 400-ton locomotive built by the...
Feb 4, 2024


Col. Rene Studler - Bluffton's professional soldier
4th in our series of famous Bluffton High School alumni Call him Bluffton’s professional soldier. Recipient of the Legion of Merit, the...
Feb 2, 2024


130 winters ago ice was 9 inches thick in local quarries
And a thriving ice business was born Imagine a Bluffton winter with nine inches of ice covering a water-filled quarry. The following...
Feb 1, 2024


WWII was the only team to beat these Pirates
80 basketball seasons ago Bluffton's boys' basketball team was the top Class B Ohio team Eighty high school basketball seasons ago, the...
Jan 31, 2024


When icicles hang by the wall in Bluffton
And thermometers reach 25 below - plus, lots of snow photos below M. Twain wrote: “Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand...
Jan 30, 2024
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