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Government

  • Parrish seeks 23rd seat

        Jonathan Parrish, a 33-year-old graphic designer from Lynchburg, is seeking the 23rd District House of Delegates seat as a Libertarian candidate. He’s a 1999 Jefferson Forest High School graduate who earned a bachelor’s degree in communications, with a concentration in graphic design, from Liberty University.

        “This is my first time ever seeking elective office,” he said.

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  • BRWA looks ahead to future water issues

        The Bedford Regional Water Authority (BRWA) came into being with Bedford’s reversion to town status. The reversion took place this year on July 1, but the process of merging the city’s water and sewer department and the Bedford County Public Service Authority (PSA) into one water authority began late last year.

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  • Supervisors approve maintenance fund request

    Bedford County’s board of supervisors had a varied agenda last week. The supervisors’ normal Monday night meeting was moved to Tuesday night because county offices were closed on Monday for Columbus Day.

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  • Cuccinelli stops in Bedford

        Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli brought his campaign for governor through Bedford late Saturday afternoon, asking supporters to knock on doors and bring voters over to his side, one at a time.

        Cuccinelli stopped at the Republican Victory Center on Grove Street to speak with supporters who were also greeted by Del. Lacey Putney and Del. Kathy Byron.

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  • Council approves firearms hunting regs for the town

        Attempts to lower the caliber of bullet that can be fired within the old town limits—or to prevent hunting there altogether—failed last Tuesday as Bedford Town Council approved amendments to the town ordinance allowing some firearms hunting within the town limits.

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  • Hunting in town with firearms moves forward

     Bedford’s town council took another step toward allowing urban hunting with firearms last week.
        The impetus for this action is the inclusion into the town limits of territory that had been just outside the former city’s city limits. People in this area had always been able to hunt on their property with firearms. This isn’t legal under existing town ordinances.

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  • Museum funding restored

        The Bedford County Board of Supervisors voted, Monday night, to restore money cut from the Bedford Museum’s request when the current fiscal year’s budget was adopted in the spring and also agreed to purchase the local battered women’s shelter.

    Bedford Domestic Violence Services

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  • Every resident counts! Just ask Town Council

        After winning their seats for Bedford Town Council in the special election held this past May, the top four vote-getters thought they wouldn’t have to run again for another four years while three were scheduled to have to run in the Nov. 2014 elections.
        You can throw those expectations out the window; all the council seats will be up for grabs in that election scheduled for just over a year from now.
        Why? Because the Census dictates it.

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  • Council ready to pull the trigger

        Some new residents of the town of Bedford who were concerned they wouldn't be able to hunt on their property anymore, are a step closer to not having to worry about that by the time deer season opens.

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  • Stokes let go as head of parks and rec

        Monday was Michael Stokes’ last day as the county’s director of parks and recreation.
        “Tuesday [Sept. 10] morning I was told by the county administrator that the board had decided to terminate me effective yesterday,” Stokes said in a Tuesday morning phone interview.

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