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Government

  • Back on the job

        Last fall, Bedford Police Officer Trista McKrickard stopped a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed the wrong way on U. S. 460.

        The way she ended up stopping the car wasn’t the way she planned, although Chief Todd Foreman notes that she probably saved somebody’s life.
        McKrickard is originally from Campbell County and has been with the Bedford Police Department since 2013. She’s been here long enough to pick up a nickname.

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  • Supervisors hold their organizational meeting

        Bedford County’s supervisors held an extra meeting this month, starting out the new year with an organizational meeting on Jan. 6. District 3 Supervisor Steve Wilkerson was chosen as chairman and District 2 Supervisor Curry Martin was chosen as vice chairman.
        The supervisors also re-adopted their rules of procedure and entertained a motion by District 4 Supervisor John Sharp to require that all contracts that require a vote by the board be first reviewed by a relevant committee composed of two supervisors.

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  • The good, the bad — and a surprise

        A report on the material condition of the county’s buildings included some good news, some bad news—and a surprise.
        The county supervisors heard the report Tuesday evening from Jeremy Lucas of Master Engineers & Designers, which was hired to do a study and evaluation of the buildings.

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  • Bedford Police Department now at full strength

        Bedford’s police department is now up to full strength with the hiring of Lt. Carla Spencer.

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  • Bedford Police Department now at full strength

        Bedford’s police department is now up to full strength with the hiring of Lt. Carla Spencer.
        According to Chief Todd Foreman, the department, with an authorized strength of 24, had been short eight officers a year ago. Foreman deliberately left the lieutenant’s slot open as the last to be filled.

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  • McKelvey to seek 5th District GOP nomination

        Following Congressman Robert Hurt’s announcement that he won’t seek a fourth term, Jim McKelvey has become the first Republican to toss his hat in the ring for his party’s nomination to run for the seat.

        McKelvey originally sought the nomination back in 2010. He came in second in a crowded field with a little better than a quarter of the votes cast. Hurt won the nomination and went on to win the election, unseating incumbent Tom Perriello who, in turn, had unseated incumbent Virgil Goode in 2008.

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  • Eubank ends more than 40 years of public service

        On January 1, 1968, Lucille Boggess became the County’s first female Commissioner of the Revenue. 

        On that same day, Faye Eubank began working as one of her deputies.  As a 19 year old, Eubank had started working part time for former Commissioner, Garrett Ballard in May of 1967.

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  • Hurt won’t seek fourth term

        Congressman Robert Hurt, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, unseating former Congressman Tom Periello after one term, will not seek a fourth term next year.

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  • Mark Carter promoted to lieutenant

        Jack Jones, the county’s chief of fire and rescue, said the department likes to promote from within. They did that last week when Mark Carter was promoted to lieutenant.

        Carter is a native of Body Camp. He attended Virginia Tech for two years before switching to the Jefferson College of Health Science, graduating with a medical associates degree that qualified him as  a paramedic. He’s both a nationally registered and state certified paramedic.

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  • Out of the ‘trailer park’

        Bedford County Fire and Rescue made its official move from what some called “the trailer park” into its new quarters on Sept. 1.

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