Today's Features

A bout of bad health may have saved a man’s life nearly 70 years ago.

    Carriage Hill is now under new management.

    T. J. M. Properties, of Clearwater, Fla., purchased the retirement community last year. According to Chris Davis, Carriage Hill’s executive director, T. J. M. specializes in assisted living, skilled care and independent living facilities. He said that facilities like Carriage Hill are the heart of what the company does. It currently has 11 facilities and acquiring Carriage Hill was the beginning of an expansion into Virginia. He anticipates having two more by the end of the year.

A partnership between Bedford Science and Technology Center’s (BSTC) electricity program and Southern Air has paid off for both.

    Aaron Payne teaches the electricity course at BSTC, a two-year program. Payne hails from Philadelphia and has been teaching for 14 years, five of them at BSTC. Like many people teaching vocational programs, Payne has actually worked in the trade.

    “Before teaching, I was an electrical superintendent,” he said. “I worked for Moore’s Electric.”

You might say local historian and author Peter Viemeister has found “Lightning” in “The Box.”

    The lightning is Viemeister’s five decade old book “The Lightning Book” and the box is a movie by that title, “The Box,” in which Viemeister’s book is used as a prop.