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Government

  • Cell tower plan needs update

        Bedford County’s telecommunications tower strategic plan needs an update, according to George Condyles, president of The Atlantic Group. This company serves as the county’s technical consultant on telecommunications tower issues.
        The current plan was adopted in 2002. At that time cell phone companies were in the process of transitioning from analog transmissions to digital. Wireless service concentrated on voice with very little data.
        “There was no such thing as apps,” Condyles said.

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  • BCSO seeks funds to allow inmates to serve on work details

        The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office is seeking funds to allow Blue Ridge Regional Jail inmates to form clean-up work details along highways in the county.

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  • New ambulance takes to the road

        A career ambulance crew that has been using a borrowed ambulance, provided courtesy of the Montvale Rescue Squad, now has its own. According to Jack Jones, the county’s director of fire and rescue, the ambulance was purchased from money obtained from insurance billing, rather than tax money. This is the second county-owned ambulance put into service this year.

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  • Harmony decision delayed

        Harmony, George Aznavorian’s latest planned development, encountered push-back from some citizens during a public hearing last week.
        All but 10 acres of the land where he proposes to build Harmony is in Bedford County and is currently zoned AR, an agricultural zone, and Aznavorian needs it rezoned to PD-1, a planned development zoning, in order to build the project.

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  • Group home faces shortfall

         Andy Crawford, Bedford County’s director of social services, brought a problem to the Board of Supervisors’ budget work session, Monday evening.
        The work session was dedicated to enterprise funds, county services that are supposed to pay their own way due to the revenue they generate. Bedford County Group Homes is one of these.

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  • Supervisors approve one School Board request; table another

        The Bedford County Board of Supervisors took action an a number of issues at a Monday night meeting that featured a lengthy agenda—including cell towers, the change of the master plan for Thomas Jefferson Crossing and the re-appropriation of funds for the school system.

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  • No tax hikes planned by county this year

        The good news is that Bedford County has a balanced budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. The bad news is that this is a tentative budget as there are a lot of factors, still unknown, that could impact it.

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  • All in the family: Foster parents provide home for area children

        Dwayne Shepherd, of Montvale, grew up in a large family that included foster and adopted children. His parents, Calvin and Martha Shepherd, had two biological children—Dwayne was one of them—and five adopted children. They also took in foster children.

        After Dwayne got married, he and his wife, Patti, were able to move into a four-bedroom house.
        “We felt God had blessed us with that extra room,” said Shepherd. “We felt we should share it.”

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  • Business roundtables resume in this area

        Traci Blido, Bedford County’s new director of economic development, has resumed sponsoring business roundtables. The first of what she plans to be a quarterly event was held at Central Virginia Community College’s Bedford facility, Thursday.

        Blido presented statistics on the Bedford area. One was a list of the largest employers in Bedford County. While the top two were Bedford County Public Schools and Bedford County, the top five included TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Mail America and Georgia-Pacific.

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  • Rogers steps into role as interim administrator

    Frank Rogers, who was appointed interim county administrator last week, isn’t new to the neighborhood.

        Rogers first came here as assistant county administrator in September, 2005. Prior to that, he had been special projects manager in York County. This was a catch-all position in which he managed several areas including housing and neighborhood revitalization, community services and the county’s financial unit.

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