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Retail and experience-based businesses added to downtown Bluffton 

By Marlena Ballinger 

MEDIA RELEASE FOR NORTHWEST OHIO, WILDLIFE DISTRICT TWO__State Wildlife Investigator Kevin Good received information that an individual who had lost fishing privileges on Ohio’s public waterways as a result of previous wildlife violations had been fishing on Lake Erie. State Wildlife Investigators Brian Bury and Travis Abele observed the suspect fishing. Investigator Good issued the individual a summons for fishing under a revoked license. The individual was found guilty and ordered to pay more than $700 in fines and court costs, and the fishing license revocation was extended for five additional years.
 

By Paula Pyzik Scott

The 57th annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels presented by the Bluffton Lions Club will take place on Friday, July 13 with parts of downtown Bluffton closed to traffic beginning at 1:00 p.m. (rain or shine). The show ends with a cruise down S. Main St. at 8:00 p.m. See the attached poster and details below for the full schedule of events.

Registration for Antique Cars, Classic Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Fire Engines and Motorcycles begins at 1:00 p.m. Dash plaques will be provided to the first 280 registered; the fee is $12.00.

The event will include a DJ, food trucks and 50/50 Raffle.

MEDIA RELEASE FROM HARDIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENER VOLUNTEERS__Join us for our summer program series at the Hardin County Friendship Gardens, located at 960 W. Kohler St. in Kenton. All workshops in this series begin at 6 p.m.

June 17, 2025
Tours of the Friendship Gardens You are invited to explore the gardens. firing your gardening questions and our experts will be glad to answer!

July 15, 2025
Brambles & Currants

August 19, 2025
Growing Mushrooms

Topics are subject to change. Parking is available at the Friendship Gardens.

MAY 29 MEDIA RELEASE__Crime Victim Services is pleased to announce their second annual Anti-Violence Teen Summer Retreat happening July 14th-July 18th.

Blacksmith Keith Sommer / PHOTO Midwest Settlers and Threshers Association

From www.BlufftonIcon.com

MEDIA RELEASE__On Saturday, June 14, the Swiss Community Historical Society will host a blacksmithing demonstration by Keith Sommer, SCHS curator. This is the first of three Second Saturday events to be held at the homestead in 2025.

Blacksmithing was a once-common task at the Schumacher Homestead. Sommer will work with various blacksmith tools for hammering, punching and welding wrought iron and steel, while using a forge fire to heat the metal to “white hot” before shaping into the desired end result. 

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