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  • The ethanol mandate: Hurting American’s economy

    Who’s paying the costs of the federal ethanol mandate? Every family who shops in a grocery store or dines at a restaurant, every livestock producer who faces higher feed costs, and every motorist who fills up their tank at the gas station pays the price of this unworkable policy.

     

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  • Upon further consideration

    By Becky Griffith
    Forest

        Comments by Supervisor Annie Pollard regarding Bedford County teachers were met with a great deal of public opinion. Supervisor Pollard’s response to that opinion appears to be an attempt to somehow justify her poorly chosen comments.
        Reading through her lengthy response, several items deserve further consideration:
        *The proper spelling of the Bedford County School Superintendent is Dr. Douglas Schuch; not Shuck.

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  • Let’s look at the facts

    By Annie S. Pollard
    Bedford County Supervisor
    District 6

        To the many citizens who have been supportive of my remarks at a recent board meeting, I want to thank you.
        To the majority of Bedford County teachers, I want to repeat my statement from the same meeting which is, “I know that Bedford County has some of the best teachers in the State…” 

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  • Governor’s race under way, but few notice

    Virginia will be the most politically-watched state in the country later this year, but you sure wouldn’t know it right now.
        Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor, is getting around the state and meeting with supporters. He was in Roanoke last week, and again this week.
        McAuliffe knows that a significant drop in voter turnout from 2012 could very well put his opponent, the extremist attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, in office.

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  • Setting priorities won’t be easy

        Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Arrington told me that the supervisors plan to get an early start on next year’s budget. Arrington said that, as soon as they finish their work on revisions to the zoning ordinance, they will start discussing budget priorities. The impression I got is that they will be doing that this summer.

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  • The truth must come out

    At least one top diplomatic official believes that the US military could have prevented an attack in Benghazi last Sept. 11, had fighter jets been deployed in a timely manner.
        Other reports continue to surface claiming a cover-up by the Obama Administration on Benghazi, to deflect the true nature of the attack prior to the November elections.
        Even further, some reports show a president detached from the attack on the American Embassy in which US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed.

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  • Austin wins firehouse primary

    Terry Austin, a member of the Botetourt County Board of Supervisors is the Republican Party's nominee to replace Delegate Lacey Putney in the House of Delegates. Putney, who announced in March that he will not seek reelection, represents the 19th District which comprises Allegheny County, Botetourt County and a portion of Bedford County.

    Austin won Tuesday evening's firehouse primary in a four way race which included Zachary Hatcher, of Botetourt County and Zach Martin and Jim McKelvey, of Bedford County.

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  • Guest commentary: Hannah Steele

     

    It's Friday evening. What to do, what to do? Yard work or spend those hours out watching a high school spring sports game?

    For those of you who enjoy gardening, weeding, and mowing more than a sports game, you can stop reading now.

    For those of you who enjoy watching sports games while sitting on cool metal bleachers eating delicious junk food, you are in luck.

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  • Cavs edge M-Men nine

     

    You can call it a moral victory.  But the Minutemen baseball crew seems quite a bit more interested in the victories that show up in the W-L standings.

    Liberty played Jefferson Forest tough, once again.  But it was the crew from Forest that prevailed, sweeping its season series with the Minutemen by virtue of a 4-0 win at Liberty's Jim Cutler Field.

    It comes on the heels of a 2-1 win by JF over the Minutemen at Forest.

    The win kept the Cavs in contention for the Seminole District's regular season crown.

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  • Who are these gals?

     

    Who are these gals?

    The Jefferson Forest softball crew, renown for its pitching and defensive acumen, suddenly is mistreating the ball with a vengeance.

    The Lady Cavs' muscle flexing seemed to peak last Friday evening as they belted an astonishing 19 hits in mauling Liberty on the Lady Minutemen home field.

    The final score was as bloody as it was sobering:  11-3.

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