Today's News

    A Bedford man with a history of charges relating to setting fires has been charged with starting a blaze that destroyed his mother’s home Monday.
    Bedford County Sheriff’s investigators have changed Darrell Bruce Orange, 53, with arson of a residence at 1071 Murray Hollow Road in Thaxton. He lived in the residence with his mother. He is being held in the Bedford Adult Detention Center on no bond.

    The children at the Growing Place, a pre-school run by Bedford Baptist Church, got a recent visit by the Bedford Police Department.

    The effort part of a bicycle safety program and one of the police department’s bicycle patrol officers shows up each year. This time, they got two patrol officers — Joe Dooley and Tim Stanley — along with Lt. Todd Foreman.

    April was National Volunteer Appreciation Month and Bedford Memorial Hospital thanked its volunteers with a lunch at Bedford Columns. The event also included door prizes donated by area businesses.

    Dr. Fred Conner, Bedford County Public Schools’ supervisor of career and technical education, spoke about the school division’s 50 partnership with Bedford Memorial. Conner, in turn, got some special attention from the lunch’s live entertainer.

    Two 2011 Dodge Avengers will be joining Bedford Public Schools’ drivers’ education program.

    According to Dr. Mac Duis, the school division’s director of instruction, the focus of the driver’s ed program has been changed from using a driving range at Bedford Science and Technology Center to over-the-road training. This will provide a more realistic experience to the students.