Today's News

A lot of churches build additions or new sanctuaries, but the new sanctuary that Grace Memorial Baptist Church dedicated this month is something different.

    Grace Memorial is a country church, located on Robertson Road, off Dickerson Mill Road, but what was built doesn’t look like what comes to mind when you think of a country church. The 500 seat sanctuary, and the building that houses it, looks more like what you would expect a suburban congregation to build.

    Along with Bedford Domestic Violence Services, there is another group dealing with the problem of domestic violence.

    The Bedford Domestic Violence Coalition isn’t a competing organization. In fact, Bedford Domestic Violence Services is part of the Coalition. Its goal is to bring individuals, direct service providers and organizations together in a collaborative effort.

    Individuals may be professionals, such as forensic nurses, employees of the victim/witness program or social workers.

n spite of spending more than Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran put together, Terry McAullife scored only 26 percent of the vote in the primary that Virginia’s Democrats held to determine who their candidates for governor and lieutenant governor would be. Last Tuesday's primary results in the Bedford area were much like those in the rest of the state.

    Bedford County saw 1,635 people cast ballots, according to Barbara Gunter, the county’s registrar. Creigh Deeds got 1,001 votes while McAullife got 453. Moran came in a distant third with 152 votes.

    The city of Bedford will continue to provide school resource officers for Bedford Elementary and Bedford Middle School, but will eliminate its economic development coordinator position. And just what funding the Bedford Main Street, Inc. program will receive has yet to be determined.