

Apr 18, 2024
Meet the Beaverdam Beavers of '59
The boys of summer 65 baseball seasons ago Meet the 1959 Beaverdam High School baseball team – from 65 seasons past. Front row from left,...
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Apr 17, 2024
50 baseball seasons ago
Meet the Pirates of 1974 - sectional champions Meet the sectional champion Bluffton High School baseball team of 1974. Front from left,...
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Apr 16, 2024
In 1954 Bluffton Public Library launched a sheet music collection
And, according to The Bluffton News, "It's off to a good start" How times have changed.This interesting headline and story made the front...
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Apr 16, 2024
When did the telephone arrive here?
The telephone rates were to be uniform ... • not exceeding $30 per year for business houses, firms and offices, • nor $18 per year for...
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Apr 11, 2024
80 years ago it was "fast time" vs. "slow time"
Daylight Saving Time was a phrase foreign to the general public, and the time change was determined by each locality Here’s a thought:...
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Apr 10, 2024
Welcome to pre-awning Main Street
Don't you just love that street light! Welcome to pre-awning Main Street Bluffton, circa 1962. The overheads came later in the 1960s....
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Apr 9, 2024
April 1949 - Bluffton watches eclipse of moon
Described as the most perfectly visible here in more than a century Historically, April is apparently eclipse month in Bluffton. From the...
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Apr 8, 2024
Nightfall in Bluffton 3:08 p.m., 4/08/24
As expected, nightfall in Bluffton, Ohio, came early on Monday, April 8, 2024. – Photo by Fred Steiner But, who expected this? For nearly...
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Apr 7, 2024
A story...if only we could tell our great-grandparents
about the Great American Eclipse of 2024 Believe in coincidences? Ponder this one. Eighty-five years ago this month our Bluffton...
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Apr 6, 2024
85 proms ago the question was: "Dancing or no dancing?"
First time dancing question asked for the junior-senior banquet Here’s an interesting question. Should dancing be permitted at the...
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Apr 4, 2024
60 senior class plays ago in Beaverdam
Meet the cast of the 1963-64 Beaverdam HS senior class play It's the Beaverdam High School senior class play cast from 1963-64. The play...
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Apr 3, 2024
Meet the Pirates 85 track seasons ago
And, check out the times and distances of the all-time school track records in 1939 Meet the Bluffton High School boys’ track team of...
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Apr 2, 2024
In 1900 Bluffton had 7 lodges
Here is the Knights of Maccabee drill team in dress uniform Lodges, or separate clubs for men and for women, were popular in the United...
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Apr 1, 2024
1897 warning to hog thieves
Don't steal any more of C.L. Turley's hogs Here’s a 127-year-old joke that may take a second or two to soak in. Once you get it – look...
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Mar 28, 2024
Adella Steiner Oyer
• 12th in our series of outstanding Bluffton High School alumni • A pioneer female teacher, she was the first-ever married women hired at...
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Mar 28, 2024
It's 1967 on Main Street Bluffton
But, what's going on in the building on the far right? If you didn’t know better, you might wonder what town is shown in this photo. None...
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Mar 27, 2024
The day a major league baseball MVP came to Bluffton
Credit Bluffton College's A.C. Burcky for the win A.C. Burcky, Bluffton College’s long-time coach and athletic director, was always on...
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