N-B Video: Graduation Day at Bluffton Boot Camp

Students in Bluffton's annual boot camp celebrated a successful week learning about discipline, team work, healthy choices and how law enforcement officials work, from bike patrol to strategically hitting someone with a baton. (Video by Glen Werling)

N-B Video: Do you believe in magic

Magician CR Ryan appeared at the Wells County Friday to help honor the youngest readers who completed the library's "Around the World" Summer Reading Program. At the end of his performance, he taught the children how to create the illusion that they had severed (and reattached) their fingers. (Video by Barbara Barbieri)

(Stop) Signs of the time.

Forty-four intersections with two-way stop signs and the four-way stop at the intersection of Wayne and Spring streets have now been officially approved by the Bluffton Common Council. While there have always been signs at the intersection, there was no listing in the city's books requiring them, theoretically meaning that the city couldn't enforce them. The city now, however, has taken steps so that police can enforce them.

TWO-WAY STOPS

• Traffic on Adams Street shall stop for traffic on Angel Street
• Traffic on Bennett Street shall stop for traffic on Spring Street
• Traffic on Bellbrook Boulevard shall stop for traffic on Dustman Road
• Traffic on Brookhaven Drive shall stop for traffic on Ridgewood Lane
• Traffic on Capri shall stop for traffic on Terminus
• Traffic on Columbian Avenue shall stop for traffic on Lancaster Street
• Traffic on Deerbrook Court shall stop for traffic on Ridgewood Lane
• Traffic on Echo Lane shall stop for traffic on Spring Street
• Traffic on Elm Drive shall stop for traffic on Spring Street
• Traffic on Farmington Drive shall stop for traffic on Ellingham Pike
• Traffic on Granary Court shall stop for traffic on Greenfield Lane
• Traffic on Greenfield Lane shall stop for traffic on Farmington Drive
• Traffic on Greenfield Lane shall stop for traffic on Clark Avenue
• Traffic on High Point Court shall stop for traffic on Dustman Road
• Traffic on Highland Court shall stop for traffic on Old Creek Avenue
• Traffic on Highland Park Circle (eastbound and westbound) shall stop for traffic on Sycamore Lane
• Traffic on Johnson Street shall stop for traffic on Wabash Street
• Traffic on Kenwood Drive shall stop for traffic on Sherwood Drive
• Traffic on Lakeview Court shall stop for traffic on Dustman Road
• Traffic on Liberty Street shall stop for traffic on Spring Street
• Traffic on Meadow Lane shall stop for traffic on Lancaster Street
• Traffic on Memory Lane shall stop for traffic on Lancaster Street
• Traffic on Mulberry Street shall stop for traffic on Spring Street
• Traffic on North Shore Drive shall stop for traffic on Dustman Road
• Traffic on Old Creek Avenue shall stop for traffic on Stogdill Road
• Traffic on Orchard Circle shall stop for traffic on Sherwood Drive
• Traffic on Orchard Ridge Drive shall stop for traffic on River Road
• Traffic on Parlor City Drive shall stop for traffic on Ridgewood Lane
• Traffic on Plaza Street shall stop for traffic on Harrison Street
• Traffic on Plaza Street shall stop for traffic on State Street
• Traffic on Ridgewood Lane shall stop for traffic on Sherwood Drive
• Traffic on Ridgewood Lane shall stop for traffic on Old Creek Avenue
• Traffic on Riverview Drive shall stop for traffic on River Road
• Traffic on Shadow Run Trail shall stop for traffic on Channing Way
• Traffic on Sherwood Drive shall stop for traffic on Stogdill Road
• Traffic on Stogdill Road shall stop for traffic on River Road
• Traffic on Stogdill Road shall stop for traffic on Ind. 116
• Traffic on Treyburn Court shall stop for traffic on Channing Way
• Traffic on Virginia Court shall stop for traffic on Lancaster Street
• Traffic on Westgate Road shall stop for traffic on Lancaster Street
• Traffic on Wheatfield Court shall stop for traffic on Greenfield Lane
• Traffic on William Wells Circle shall stop for traffic on Madison Avenue
• Traffic on Windsor Lane shall stop for traffic on Ridgewood Lane
• Traffic on Windsor Lane shall stop for traffic on Stogdill Road

FOUR-WAY STOPS

• All traffic will stop, from all directions, at the intersection of Wayne and Spring streets

N-B Video: Bikers flock to Bluffton during state tour

Members of the Indiana Concerns of Police Survivors rode to and stopped in Bluffton Tuesday, July 26, during their annual tour to raise funds to assist families of police officers who died in the line of duty. (Video by Dave Schultz)

N-B Video: How to strategically hit someone

During the annual Bluffton Boot Camp, Bluffton Police Deputy Chief Nathan Huss taught children about how police strategically use their batons to restrain people, and then he let the children use foam-padded batons to restrain him. To learn more about the boot camp, which teaches children more than law-enforcement techniques, see the Tuesday, July 26, News-Banner. (Video by Chet Baumgartner)

Life's a beach in Wells County

Beat the heat and admire the art with the "Life's a Beach" — this year's theme for the annual outdoors art competition sponsored by the Creative Arts Council and the Wells County Chamber of Commerce. (Video by Barbara Barbieri)

Mayor Ted Ellis honors Maureen Butler

Mayor Ted Ellis declared Sunday, July 24, Maureen Butler Day to thank Butler for her work as executive director of the Creative Arts Council. (Video by Barbara Barbieri)