Today's News

Randi Herrick has presided over 30 elections while serving as Bedford City Registrar.

    Bedford City Council adopted Bedford’s first town budget in decades last week. The end result will be lower real estate taxes next year for residents currently living in the city of Bedford, once it becomes a town.
    City Council voted, in a 4-3 vote, to provide an additional $5,000 for Bedford Main Street and and $1,000 to the Wharton Foundation.
    “Both of these organizations do a great deal for the community,” said Jim Vest, who had argued in favor of this funding at a late May work session.

    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.

    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.