Today's News

    Virginia is facing a $1.5 billion revenue shortfall in its two year budget.

    The Commonwealth budgets on a two-year cycle. On even numbered years, the General Assembly meets in a long session to adopt a budget. On odd numbered years, it convenes in a short session to tweak the budget. In the meantime, the governor can make cuts if state revenue fails to meet expectations.

Elizabeth Goff  was recently elected Southside Area Vice President of the Virginia State FFA

    “This is a huge honor for her that carries a lot of perks as well as a tremendous amount of responsibility,” stated Lindsay Tomlinson,  Ag/FFA at Liberty High School.

    Goff was nominated and elected at the 83rd Annual Virginia State FFA Convention, held in Blacksburg June 22-25 after a grueling series of interviews. Goff graduated from LHS this past year as part of the Early College Program at CVCC.

    A meeting to recruit and reorganize the Bedford Wildland Fire Crew will be held Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Bedford Fire Department.

    The Virginia Department of Forestry and Bedford County Fire & Rescue are in the process of reorganizing the crew.  Bedford’s crew was originally the first in the state but has since lacked organization and is in need of being revamped, according to Justin Dillon, Bedford County Forest Warden. 

    U.S. Sen. Mark Warner heard a bit of the story of Lawrence Patterson on Tuesday.

    Patterson, a World War II Army veteran who landed at Normandy 16 days after D-Day, was taking a tour of the National D-Day Memorial Tuesday when he crossed paths with Warner in the area of the statue of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. As Warner listened to Patterson’s account there at the English-style folly, he told the veteran, who now lives in New Jersey, of the importance of preserving the story of those who served there.