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  • Bulletin update: Winter Weather Advisory continues through Wednesday

    SALEM DISTRICT: DRIVERS SHOULD WATCH FOR ISOLATED SLICK SPOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

    Crews in some areas will monitor roads for refreezing and drifting snow overnight

    SALEM – Snow plow drivers have made progress plowing and treating roads today throughout the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Salem District. In addition, warmer temperatures have helped to improve road conditions.

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  • Update: BCSO releases information on suspect

    Bedford County Sheriff’s deputies have identified the suspect in the photo as Michael Wayne Kidd, age 43, Bedford

    Deputies have obtained warrants for Kidd for larceny, forgery and fraud.

    On Saturday February 23, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office received a call reporting the larceny of several items taken from the Faith Life Baptist Church in Montvale.

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  • Subjects arrested for malicious wounding

    On Thursday, March 7 Bedford County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to 1164 East Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike for a fight in progress call.

    When they arrived, deputies found a man with a laceration to the face. The subject, identified as Carson Elkins, 45 of Bedford, described that an altercation had ensued between him and another subject, identified as Sherwood Blake, 45 of Bedford, over Blake throwing a rock at the Elkins’s vehicle.

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  • Fire destroys home, shuts down road
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  • Ware to serve 12 months in jail

    By Tom Wilmoth
    Editor
    news@bedfordbulletin.com

    For justice to be served, 67-year-old Earl Anthony Ware needed to spend some time in jail, stated Bedford County Circuit Court Judge James Updike during a sentencing hearing Monday.
    “I have seen people go to jail for stealing a cheap bottle of wine,” Judge Updike explained in handing out the 12 month jail sentence to the former Bedford County supervisor, found guilty earlier this year of stealing close to $300,000 from a widow, children and firefighters.
    And with that, he ordered Ware into immediate custody.

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  • Pollard responds; reporter posts reaction

    To the many citizens who have been supportive of my remarks at a recent board meeting, I want to thank you. To the journalist who deliberately misled the public, I say that is journalism at its worst.
    To the majority of Bedford County teachers, I want to repeat my statement from the same meeting which is, “I know that Bedford County has some of the best teachers in the State…”

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  • School board discusses new sites for middle school; public weighs in

    The Bedford County School Board is still looking at the possibility of constructing a new middle school near Liberty High School, but it appears any possibility of building the school on the current LHS site is gone.
    Following a public hearing to discuss the three alternate plans for building the new school at the LHS property, board members distanced themselves from that proposal, choosing to begin looking for new sites, including one off US 460 in which developer George Aznavorian has offered to donate about 40 acres for the school to be built there.

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  • LTP helps out with Cop Camp

        Little Town Players (LTP)  normally runs a theater day camp each summer. This year, according to Karen C. Hopkins, they aren’t able to do it, so they are assisting the Bedford Police Department with Cop Camp. The theater group made a donation of $500 to help the effort.

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  • Veterans wives help, encourage one another

        A group of wives of Vietnam veterans started meeting at a restaurant in Lynchburg two-and-a-half years ago. Most of these women are caring for disabled husbands and the began meeting as a support group. Most of the husbands are combat veterans.

        “We are there to encourage one another,” said Judy Doering, who coordinates the group.
        The group grew and now meets at Lynchburg’s American Legion Post 16 on the fourth Thursday of each month.

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  • Bedford Health Foundation has new director

        Denny Huff, who joined the Bedford Community Health Foundation as its new executive director on April 8, has spent the last 20 years — the entire time since graduating from college — working for non-profit organizations.

        Huff has a bachelor’s degree in history and he originally intended to teach history and political science. However, the first opportunity that opened up for him after graduation was with a non-profit organization. He took it, loved it and made non-profit organizations his career.

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