Oct 10, 2023
A grinding experience
Main Street project uncovers portions put in place nearly 100 years ago Bluffton’s Main Street grinding project offers a time machine...
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Oct 10, 2023
One century ago this BHS team made a name for itself
They were red and white, but weren't Pirates and didn't play at Harmon Field – 8 wins, 1 loss This Bluffton High School team wasn’t even...
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Oct 9, 2023
One of Bluffton's most mysterious locations
MORE PHOTOS BELOW - This photo could easily be one of Bluffton’s top 10 mysterious locations. To make matters worse, this doorway no...
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Oct 7, 2023
First-class Columbus Grove mystery
Here's our second ghost story preview Putnam County officials seemed to have a first class mystery on their hands in the discovery of...
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Oct 6, 2023
Who changed Beaver Dam to Beaverdam?
When was the name change and what was its name prior to Beaver Dam? If you’ve ever wondered when and how Beaver Dam officially became...
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Oct 5, 2023
Fill 'er up at The Swiss Inn
South of Bluffton at Gratz Crossing This is the Dixie Highway, or “old” U.S. 25, south of Bluffton, in 1944. It was a brick highway when...
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Oct 5, 2023
Meet our haunted night watchman
Our first preview story from "Where Bluffton's Ghosts Sleep" Some stories carry a script from the TV series The Twilight Zone. An...
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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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Oct 4, 2023
A handsome hearse - 1888 in Bluffton
Wilson brothers undertaking business located at what is today 206 N. Main St Our advertiser of the week is the Wilson Brothers...
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Oct 3, 2023
It's 1917 - meet the Richland Male Quartet
Jesse Bracy, Vance Schreider, Noah Messinger, Christian Gratz Note: Kevin Gratz, grandson of Chris Gratz, provided Bluffton Forever with...
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Oct 3, 2023
Cruising campus in a convertible
Carload of Bluffton College sophomores in 1941 From the 1941 Bluffton College Ista yearbook: From left, in the back seat, Zitella...
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Oct 2, 2023
5 sets of twins in one school room
It was in the Hilty school west of Bluffton in the early 1910s Imagine teaching school with a classroom with five sets of twins. Beyond...
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Sep 29, 2023
This pitcher is knee deep in trouble
When the term "rain delay" took on a new meaning Bluffton News editor, Todd Gratz, got his feet wet taking this photo countless baseball...
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Sep 28, 2023
Here's where to buy your ghost book
and, where to hear stories to creep you If ghost stories give you the creeps you have four opportunities to make that happen this month,...
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Sep 27, 2023
St. John's UCC baptismal font
Created by Peter Klassen in the 1930s - includes six ceramic pieces Baptismal at St. John's United Church of Christ Located in the church...
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Sep 27, 2023
Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Male Chorus - 1939
Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...
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Sep 27, 2023
Hilty, Reichenbach, Diller, Sommers, Moser and Steiner
If you have a Swiss surname you might be related to someone here If you have a Swiss surname then you might be related to one of these...
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