Feb 28
It's 1986 - how many band uniforms ago ?
Bluffton HS marching band is the Bluffton sesquicentennial parade - Phillip Wilson, director It's Bluffton 1986 125th anniversary parade...
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Dec 14, 2023
One of Bluffton's favorite cruising convertibles
With four Bluffton High School seniors in the class of 1979 It's the first day of spring 1979. Bluffton News editor is on the lookout for...
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Dec 7, 2023
45 Bluffton HS student senates ago
It's 1978-79 at Bluffton High School The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin appears, the first test tube baby is born, the first Garfield comic...
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Nov 30, 2023
When French was a spoken at BHS
Meet the French Club 50 school years ago Meet members of the Bluffton High School French Club in the 1973-74 school year. Front from...
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Nov 22, 2023
1983-84 Bluffton HS National Honor Society
With names like Gerber, Musser, Shelly, Brunswick, Schweingruber, Herr and more Meet the Bluffton High School Student Honor Society from...
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Nov 21, 2023
50 Buccaneer staffs ago
How many school yearbooks are on your shelf...or in your attic? Check out members of the Bluffton High School “Buccaneer” yearbook staff...
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Oct 4, 2023
We bid farewell to it in the early 1980s
Any chance you can identify this building that once stood on South Main Street? Any chance you can identify this building that once stood...
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Jul 31, 2023
Once upon a time on Vance Street
Vance Street Apartments in the spring of 1986 Here’s a scene taken during construction of today’s Vance Street Apartments. The photo...
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Jul 9, 2023
The real purpose of the Bluffton lagoon
Could this be the last-ever dunking of an engaged student? It's Denny Thompson and the year is 1978 Once upon a time, an engaging...
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May 19, 2023
Showing one-night only – in 1971
A spelling bee gone wrong on the Carma marquee An all-star cast of Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts and James Gregory,...
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May 12, 2023
Do you remember this building?
Okay, let's step inside for a closer look If you remember this building then you are at least 40 years old - depending upon your memory...
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Mar 2, 2023
Did they perform anything by Kool & the Gang?
Meet the 1980 Bluffton High School show choir Introducing the Bluffton High School show choir from the 1980 school year. Front row: ...
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Feb 16, 2023
A blizzard stopped this AC&Y freight outside Bluffton
February 1977 taught us not to mess with Mother Nature Forty-six winters ago this month – it was the famous blizzard of 1977 – a freight...
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Oct 20, 2022
50 volleyball seasons ago at BHS
Pirate's 1972 volleyball team It's one-half century since this team played volleyball. It's the 1972 Bluffton HS squad. Members front,...
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Jul 24, 2022
A summer day downtown in 1971
It’s the summer of 1971 and the message on the Carma Theatre marquee reads: Laugh Riot of the Year, promoting the film “A New Leaf.” The...
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Jul 20, 2022
It's 1974 and I can see your house from here
Hey, Bluffton High School doesn't look like that today! Here's an aerial photo of Bluffton taken in 1974. The scene above shows Bluffton...
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Apr 22, 2022
Bluffton's isle of apathy
Poetry from a forgotten May Day weekend Once known as the Bluffton College water tower, this structure no longer exists. It did not...
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Apr 7, 2022
One-half century plus 2
Meet the 1970 Bluffton High School boys' track team Members of the 1970 Bluffton High School boys’ track team, Row one: Larry Diller, Ned...
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Feb 22, 2022
One-game from state
Meet there 1969-70 Bluffton High School boys' basketball team Here’s the 1969-70 regional runner up BHS boys’ basketball team with its...
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Feb 21, 2022
The 1999-2000 Pirates were also NWC champs
Here’s the 1999-2000 Bluffton High School boys’ varsity basketball team. This team won the Northwest Conference title and finished with a...
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