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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Fire destroys home, shuts down road
  • 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.

  • 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…”

  • 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.

  • New London Day dig provides look back

        Friends of New London, a historical group, found itself the perfect headquarters.

  • Car going wrong way on US 460 causes accident

    A North Carolina woman made what could have been a fatal mistake last week.

        According to Lt. Todd Foreman, of the Bedford City Police, Sergeant Robert Monk headed out on a report of an SUV driving the wrong way  on    U. S. 460 last Tuesday, May 7.

  • Lunch and plant sale provides needed funds

        The Blue Ridge Garden Club’s annual lunch and plant sale drew about 150 people to Main Street United Methodist Church as the month of April closed out.

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