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We celebrated Memorial Day this past Monday. Originally, today would have been Memorial Day but it was converted to a Monday holiday half a ce…
A couple of things happened last week that are reminders of what a great asset the Bedford Community Health Foundation is to the Bedford area.
Teenage pranks have probably been around as long as there have been teenagers. Some are just silly and some are genuinely funny. They are typi…
The Bedford County Planning Commission did the right thing when they voted not to recommend giving a company called Sobrius a special use perm…
Everybody is going to have to pay more taxes this year.
Friday was a good day to pay tribute to people who served their country in the uniforms of our armed forces. It was a bright, sunny warm day. …
All the homeowners of Bedford County are in jeopardy. The County Board of Supervisors are holding a public hearing April 24th, (prior to this …
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It was pleasing to see the large turnout of people at last week’s Town Council meeting. It’s too bad there aren’t citizens at all the meetings…
Bedford will shortly conquer the Town and Country subdivision. The date for the conquest to take effect is July 1. This annexation is much lik…
Late last month the Liberty High School (LHS) chapter of Youth of Virginia Speak Out (YOVASO) dramatized what can happen if a teen chooses to …
A number of people have expressed dismay over the apparently light sentence that Daniel Flint, the man convicted of setting fire to Bedford Mi…
By now you have gotten your notices from the county on the reassessed value of your real estate.
The new year has gotten off to an interesting start.
We always wish people a happy new year, although nobody ever knows what the new year will bring. For some of us, it may be a happy new year. O…
Hopefully you will have a merry Christmas and there are some folks in the Bedford area who have worked to help folks out who’s Christmas may h…
Thursday night, Mark Blankenship, supervisor for testing and demographic planning gave the school board an update on declining enrollment in B…
It was 81 years ago today that aircraft from the Japanese navy bombed us into World War II. Eight battleships of our Pacific Fleet were sunk a…
NASA finally got it’s big rocket off the ground. After one more hurricane delay, it blasted off in a night launch after sitting on its launch …
One of the things we can be thankful for is that our democracy is still intact.
Friday, the D-Day Memorial’s Veterans Day keynote speaker, Major General Antonio Munera, mentioned that there are benefits to military service.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and the news has been full of stories about a shortage of turkeys. This means that you will probably ge…
Peoples Furniture is no more. It closed forever on Oct. 22 at 3 p.m.
Central and Southwest Virginia Honor Flight took 15 veterans to Washington D. C. last weekend to visit the memorials to the men who fought in …
The supervisors voted last week to apply for an Industrial Revitalization (IRF) grant from the State Department of Housing and Community Devel…
The Bedford County Farm Bureau held it’s annual dinner meeting Tuesday night at Thaxton Baptist Church. This was their first dinner meeting si…
This past weekend is one of those times that we should be thankful that Bedford is geographically located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Saturday was a perfect day for outdoor events. The weather was sunny and warm. People could enjoy being outdoors.
This is a good time to be job hunting. Unemployment is low and many employers need people.