Mar 24, 2024
1962 at First Mennonite Church
Fourth, fifth and sixth graders choir directed by Wanda Pannabecker Here’s the junior choir of First Mennonite Church, directed by Wanda...
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Mar 23, 2024
March 23, 1913 - when the Riley flooded Bluffton
Plus photos of Ada and Ottawa under water While crossing our fingers in hopes that the Riley Creek floods are a thing of the past, today...
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Mar 22, 2024
110 years ago Bluffton's SS bursting at the seams
Report of 1,221 attending Sunday School in late February, 1914 One hundred ten years ago Bluffton Sunday schools were bursting at the...
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Mar 21, 2024
85 school years ago in Bluffton
Meet the elementary teachers of the 1938-39 school year Eighty-five Bluffton school years ago, here were the elementary teachers, with...
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Mar 20, 2024
Elm Center School 1916-17
Many familiar last names including Diller, Hilty, Bucher, Burry, Badetscher, Steiner, Geiger and others Take a close look at these...
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Mar 19, 2024
When the trout derby was born
Sportsmen's Club and could be Lions members cleaned up the Buckeye This photo from the mid-to-late 1940s shows a number of people who...
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Mar 15, 2024
Roscoe Evans
• 11th in our series of famous Bluffton High School alumni • For 23 years he was caretaker of the world's largest organ - located in...
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Mar 14, 2024
An early Travel Class photo
These Bluffton women were interested in understanding the world outside Bluffton Here's another Travel Class group photo - but from an...
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Mar 13, 2024
Meet the Bluffton Travel Class
Many familiar last names including Triplett, Hauenstein, Diller, Basinger, Hirscher, Baumgartner and others The Travel Class was one of...
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Mar 12, 2024
Bluffton's railroad Golden Age
It's nearly 115 years ago at the National Quarry north of Jefferson Street - the year is 1910-11 Can't you just hear the whistle? The...
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Mar 11, 2024
Roller skate at your own risk on Grove St.
And other important news items from 95 years ago this week in Bluffton • Warning to children roller skating on Grove Street • 77...
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Mar 10, 2024
105 years ago this week in Bluffton
Professor H.W. Berky will speak on the use of gas in the war For viewers curious about Bluffton activities taking place 105 years ago...
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Mar 9, 2024
It's the winter of 1965 and the temp is low
Let's take a brisk walk up Main Street and do some window shopping Before we bid farewell to winter, put on your winter coat and take a...
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Mar 7, 2024
LSO could not exist without Bluffton musicians
Twelve Bluffton residents, including Bluffton High School students, performed in the late 1950s Bluffton musicians have always maintained...
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Mar 7, 2024
Dorothy "Dottie" Anderson
10th in our series of famous BHS alumni Pioneer aviatrix taught hundreds of students to fly Bluffton airport terminal named in her honor...
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Mar 6, 2024
Meet Isaac Newton Good and his twin Abraham
Bluffton News editor Ted Biery had lots to say about them; They may have been the oldest living twins in Ohio No one denies Bluffton has...
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Mar 5, 2024
BHS's 1st state track runner-up trophy
Steve Bruskotter coached the team that included state qualifiers Bruce Matter, Jon Parkins and Jerry Shaw Forty-six track seasons ago the...
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