Today's Features

    One of these days it's likely Alexis Brown will be known as Dr. Brown.

 The 2013 Jefferson Forest High School (JFHS) graduate is headed off to the College of William and Mary, the second oldest university in the United States; she is enrolled in a pre-med program.

After retiring as the president of an executive search firm, Dick Mendel was looking for a place to spend his retirement.

    He wanted an area with four seasons. His executive recruitment firm was based in Texas, but he is a Catskill Mountain boy, so he was looking for a green location. Mendel settled on Virginia, after some research and rented a house in Roanoke while he conducted a search.
    He settled on a house in Body Camp that needs a lot of work, but it’s a historic house.

    Back in 2001, Robert Miller, a local photographer, weighed a quarter of a ton.
    He had always been heavy, even as a teen, and he continued to gain weight. By the time he reached 548 pounds, many everyday activities had become difficult. Simply walking a short distance across a level floor would leave him breathing hard.
    Miller was  morbidly obese. The  medical  term means that he was at least three times his ideal weight. It also meant that his obesity would eventually kill him.

    Members of Resurrection Catholic Church hold what is probably Bedford County’s biggest yard sale every year.

    Called Joyous Junque, the two-day sale is held on the first full weekend of June every year with 30 percent of the proceeds going to the church’s outreach programs and 70 percent going to local charities. This year, they passed out $48,000 to 25 charities, all but one of which are in either Franklin or Bedford County.
    That’s a pretty big yard sale!