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Today's News

  • Mission to end bullying moves ahead

    His mission lives on.

        Last year, Town Councilman Robert Carson started an anti-bullying initiative.  He started it by distributing buttons urging people to take a stand against bullying. This year, along with a pledge for students to sign, he has drawn up a pledge for parents.
        “Most of the issues we have in school are not school issues, they are parental issues,” he said.

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  • Bedford Memorial Hospital sponsors Health, Wellness Fair

        Bedford Memorial Hospital held its Community Health and Wellness Fair, Friday morning.

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  • Golden Eagles, Lady Cavs in a dilly

     

    Going into Saturday evening's ladies' hoops tilt between Staunton River and Jefferson Forest, we were confident of two things.  First, the scoreboard was unlikely to get much of a workout.  Second, the girls on the court were likely to get one.

    Such anticipation proved prescient as the Lady Eagles and Lady Cavs worked like the dickens for a meager quantity of points.  In the end, it was River's scant pile of beans which outweighed that of its northern neighbor, 43-39.

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  • Gardener preaches the organic way

    By Patricia C. Held

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  • Talking it out

        With some key funding issues on the menu, the Bedford County School Board and Supervisors met face to face Monday.
        The joint work session had members of both boards seated at tables in a semicircle facing the audience in the supervisors’ meeting chamber.

    New middle school

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  • Senior Sneakers

        A batch of pedometers, provided by a Home Instead grant, gave Stewart Saunders an idea.

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  • Music teacher's charges certified to grand jury

        Charges against a Lynchburg man, accused of taking indecent liberties with a minor female student he taught at a music school, will go to a Bedford County grand jury.

        On Fri-day Dec. 19, Luis Roberto Mendez, 42, was arrested and charged with two counts of taking indecent liberty with a child. He has been held in the Bedford Adult Detention Center on no bond since his arrest.
        At  a  bond  hearing  appeal, Judge James Updike deemed him as a flight risk, denying Mendez bond.

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  • The art of science

    By Regina Carson
    Community Outreach Coordinator
    RVGS

        At the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School for Science and Technology, students are charged each year with carrying out a science fair project.
        This year, Gov. School/Staunton River High School senior Bronson Aznavorian elected to work in the biotechnology field on a project titled Comparing the Efficacy of Homeopathic Treatments in Inactivating Escherichia coli O157:H7.

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  • GOP to decide next month on process to select its candidates

        Three candidates for this fall’s board of supervisors elections, Andy Dooley (District 6), Kevin Willis (District 7)  and John Messier (District 5) have said they are seeking the Republican nomination.
         Two of those seats, District 5 and District 7 are held by incumbents who are Republicans. District 5 Supervisor Steve Arrington and District 7 Supervisor Tammy Parker have not yet announced whether they will seek reelection.
        How will the local Republican Party unit make its nominations?

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  • LHS students show determination to raise funds for a new sign

    By Olivia Watts

    SCA Reporter

        The Liberty High School student body continues to raise money for a new digital sign for the front lawn.

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