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Today's News

  • Moose to light up the skies

        The city of Bedford won’t be sponsoring Fourth of July fireworks, but there will be fireworks here after all.
        They just won’t be on July 4.
        According to Andy Dooley, the lodge administrator at the Bedford Moose Lodge, the Moose will sponsor fireworks on July 5.
        Why July 5?
        Dooley said that if you want fireworks on July 4, you have to book a company early. Everybody was all booked up for July 4 at this late date.

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  • Supervisors not interested in joining regional library study

    Bedford County will not be joining Lynchburg and Campbell County in a study to determine what savings a regional library system would bring.

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  • Man faces six years in prison for relationship with 14-year-old

        A 29-year-old Lynchburg man pleaded guilty Friday to seven felonies related to having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl.
        Cody Austin McKay received an 18 year sentence—having an active prison term of 6 years, 10 months to serve of that sentence—for five convictions of carnal knowledge of a minor and two charges of possessing child pornography. Those charges relate to sexually explicit images of the girl McKay had on his cellphone when he was arrested.

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  • French government says 'Thank you' to American veterans

        Bernard Marie has hosted a D-Day/World War II dinner every year for 29 years on the anniversary of D-Day. The number of living veterans dwindles and the men are getting increasingly frail. Nevertheless 310 people packed the dining room at Roanoke’s Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center Thursday evening.

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  • D-Day veterans show up for 69th observance

        June 6, 2013, the 69th anniversary of D-Day included authentic weather. Instead of the usual Virginia June heat and humidity that accompanies these anniversary observances at the National D-Day Memorial, it was cool and a low overcast sky poured buckets of rain.

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  • Austin is part of 3-way race for 19th House District seat

        “I feel pretty good about it,” Austin said about securing the Republican nomination for the 19th House of Delegates district. He made a particularly strong showing in Botetourt County.

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  • Brewing political tea in Bedford

        Ann Briscoe got the idea for a Bedford Tea Party when she and her husband, John, attended a Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D. C. in 2010.

        Then, later, she was at a local Republican unit meeting, talking with some people outside when Laura Rodes suggested that Bedford should have a Tea Party. Travis Witt offered to start one if somebody assisted him. Briscoe agreed and that’s how the Bedford Tea Party got rolling.

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  • Moneta man guilty of taking indecent liberties with minor

        A 19-year-old Moneta man maintained his innocence throughout his trial last Tuesday, but was eventually found guilty of having sexual contact with a minor girl under the age of 13 years old.
        Howard Jamar Witcher entered not guilty pleas to the charges of taking indecent liberties with a minor and aggravated sexual battery, but following a bench trial was found guilty by Circuit Court Judge James Updike.

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  • Local elections not contested so far; deadline was Tues.

    By John Barnhart and Tom Wilmoth
    news@bedfordbulletin.com

        It appears, as of press time, that Bedford County’s elections for board of supervisors and school board will be uncontested.

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  • JFHS seniors find the ‘best way out’

        Following the commencement theme “The best way out is through,” by Robert Frost, some 322 seniors made up this year’s 40th graduating class for Jefferson Forest High School.

        Seniors Sarah Hanson and Brian Leveque brought thoughts for their fellow graduates to think about from that theme during the ceremony held at the Vines Center at Liberty University in Lynchburg.

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