Today's News

The Bedford area’s second annual Cystic Fibrosis Car Show is this Saturday. Donna Meador organizes the event to raise money for research on the disease that killed her son, Corey W. Flowers. Flowers was 26 when he died early last year. Meador chose the car show event because her son was a serious automotive enthusiast.

    According to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Web site, the disease is caused by a defective gene. This defect causes the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus.

    The Rubatex water tower has been a highly visible Bedford landmark for nearly 60 years.

     According to Larry Brookshier, a former owner of the company, the tower was built in 1952 to hold water to fight fires at the plant. At that time Bedford only had two-inch water mains, and those did not provide sufficient water pressure. Years later, the city upgraded its water mains to eight-inch lines and the tower was no longer needed.

By  a 6-2 vote, the Bedford County School Board approved an amended 2011-2012 Budget Thursday, following a $1.1 million funding reduction from Bedford County.

    Areas where the board agreed to reduce funding included:
    • More than $760,000 moved from the Maintenance Project Fund;
    • $250,000 cut from the Title 1 program;
    • $200,000 cut from the Blended Learning program;

Walter Reinhardt was a university student when Japanese naval aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Like a number of other young American men in the weeks afterwards, Reinhardt decided to enlist in the armed forces.

    “It was the thing to do,” he said, when asked why.
    He was originally planning on enlisting in the Navy, but the Navy recruiter’s office was closed the day he showed up. The Army recruiter was open for business that day, so he enlisted there.