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Today's News

  • Effort raises money for Heart Association

        For the third year in a row Thomas Jefferson Elementary School’s gym was packed with students participating in Jump Rope for Heart, a fundraising effort by the American Heart Association.

         One factor driving the turnout is an enthusiastic faculty member spearheading the effort. That’s Sue Moore, the physical education instructor. The other factor is the event’s poster boy. Cody Beck, now 4, is one of their own. His three brothers are students at the school.    

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  • Changes to permitted use table sought

        Both District 6 Supervisor Annie Pollard and District 7 Supervisor Tammy Parker are seeking to have some additions made to the permitted use table in the county’s zoning ordinance.
        Unless something is listed in a permitted use for a particular zone, it is not allowed. The two supervisors’ motions instruct the planning commission to begin the process, which will come back to the supervisors for final approval.

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  • Planning Commission looks at regs

        After briefly revisiting the issue of allowing firearms sales in residential zones, the county’s planning commission turned to discussing private roads, corridor overlays and subdivision of agricultural land. The latter entailed considerable discussion and the commission preceded its regular meeting, last week, with a 5 p.m. work session to allow ample time.

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  • 4 years for running over man with truck

        A Bedford County man will spend four years and one month behind bars for running over a man with a pickup truck last year. Thomas Stinnett, 28, pleaded guilty, in Bedford County Circuit Court Tuesday morning, to charges of malicious bodily injury, driving suspended and felony hit and run.
        “In this case, he drove over a male who was with his wife who was estranged,” said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney John Wheelock.

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  • Concert canceled

        Last year more than 500 people packed the Liberty High School auditorium to watch the  United States Air Force’s Rhythm In Blue Jazz Ensemble concert. The group was scheduled for a return visit this Saturday, but that concert has been scrapped.
        And you can blame sequestration.

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  • Update: BCSO releases information on suspect

    Bedford County Sheriff’s deputies have identified the suspect in the photo as Michael Wayne Kidd, age 43, Bedford

    Deputies have obtained warrants for Kidd for larceny, forgery and fraud.

    On Saturday February 23, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office received a call reporting the larceny of several items taken from the Faith Life Baptist Church in Montvale.

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  • Some Goodview students receive gift made just for them

        It was bright red and it’s like nothing you’ve probably ever seen. And it was a major day-brightener for some special needs children at Goodview Elementary School recently.

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  • Subjects arrested for malicious wounding

    On Thursday, March 7 Bedford County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to 1164 East Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike for a fight in progress call.

    When they arrived, deputies found a man with a laceration to the face. The subject, identified as Carson Elkins, 45 of Bedford, described that an altercation had ensued between him and another subject, identified as Sherwood Blake, 45 of Bedford, over Blake throwing a rock at the Elkins’s vehicle.

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  • Public meeting set on biosolids applications

        A public meeting on a permit application to allow the land application of biosolids in Bedford County has been scheduled for next Wednesday, March 13.
        The meeting will be held at Central Virginia    Community    College-Bedford Campus Community Room, 1633 Venture Blvd., Bedford, from 5-7 p.m.

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  • Budget talks underway

        Bedford County’s fire and rescue department may be moving into a portion of the former county group home facility. The consensus of the supervisors, at a Monday night work session, was to accept Deputy County Administrator Frank Rogers’ recommendation that the fire and rescue department move its headquarters there.

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