Local News

    A power outage and snow storm this past week disrupted some area residents’ lives, but it could have been worse.
    The power outage occurred Monday afternoon in Bedford when a conductor on a transmission line broke. That caused the outage on three of downtown Bedford’s electric stations, according to Jeff Weddle, the city’s public services director.

    Being a CASA volunteer has proven to be an ideal volunteer job for Christine Hoyne, of Forest. CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate. These are trained volunteers who are appointed by the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court to gather information in cases involving abused or neglected children and report back to the court on their needs.

    “There aren’t many books written about Korea,” said Korean War veteran Bob VandeLinde.

    There wasn’t much written about the war even as it was going on. VandeLinde said that he looked through old editions of his hometown newspaper — 37 months worth — published in the early 1950s and found no mention of the war in them. There are almost no movies about the Korean War and VandeLinde said that one, Heartbreak Ridge, is very exaggerated.

One of Bedford County's newest citizens arrived under unusual circumstances Wednesday morning. She was born in the parking lot of the Sheetz in New London. The girl's parents, Huddleston residents, were headed to a hospital in Lynchburg but the baby was just too impatient to wait.