Local News

    The Elks Home’s barn no longer has silos. The two red-capped silos were dismantled last week by Black Dog Salvage.

    According to Mike Williams, one of the partners who purchased the Home, the silos had to come down because they posed a safety issue. One was pulling away from the barn, and both had to come down because they are connected. Williams said there is also a tall, brick smokestack at the Home that will have to come down, due to safety concerns, because it has a crack in it.

    A number of local organizations began getting together, in the wake of the Sep. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, for a prayer breakfast each year on the 9-11 anniversary. The purpose of the breakfast is to encourage people to pray for America’s leaders, and people in America’s armed forces.

    Colonel James Park was the guest speaker at this year’s event held at Main Street United Methodist Church.
    Park graduated from West Point in 1972 and became an artillery officer.

A Forest man has been arrested for attempting to abduct a 13-year-old boy Monday at a bus stop, as well as attacking several other residents.

At 8:22 a.m. Monday, September 8, Bedford County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to Jane Randolph Street in Forest after receiving a call from a mother who reported that her 13 year old son had returned home from his bus stop.

    Wilber Martin started Glenwood Esso 61 years ago and Friday, for the first time, the original Glenwood Esso building on Va. 43, passed out of his family’s hands.

    Wilber’s son, Curry, eventually took over the business and, by the end of the 20th century it outgrew the old building. Curry moved the business to its current facility in 1997. He sold the building to his sisters and one sister, Gail Hopkins, a retired elementary school teacher, eventually bought the others out.