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Today's News

  • Former BCC golf pro sentenced for embezzlement

        A former golf pro at Bedford Country Club will have to pay back $24,000 he embezzled from the club, but won’t spend any time in jail for his two embezzlement convictions.
        Michael Edward Thompson, 47, of Stanley, Virginia, was sentenced to five years in prison on the convictions, but all of that time was suspended by Judge James Updike during his sentencing hearing in Bedford Circuit Court Friday.

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  • Fisher receives bond

    A Lynch Station man, facing child porn charges, was granted bond following a hearing Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court.

         Bobby Matthew Fisher, 23, is facing six charges connected to an investigation earlier this month.
        On August 4 investigators with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office assigned to the Southern Virginia Internet    Crimes Against Children Taskforce (SOVA-ICAC) began investigating a case involving the solicitation of child pornography.

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  • LHS to hold Homecoming parade

        Bedford Town Council voted last week to close streets for what Liberty High School Student Council Association President Foster Garrett hopes will be the start of a new tradition — a Liberty High School Homecoming parade.
        Garrett, who spoke before Council supporting the street closure.
        “I think this will be the start of a nice, new tradition,” Garrett said.
        Garrett said the parade will include the school’s band and floats. It will be held on Sept. 22.

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  • New system will help with public safety

        Amherst County, Bedford County and the city of Lynchburg have launched a new public safety communications system, offering extended coverage and the ability to communicate with other localities during emergency or other public safety incidents.

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  • Hales Ford Bridge repairs to begin

        Repairs to the Hales Ford Bridge on Route 122 (Booker T. Washington Highway) are set to begin next week and will impact traffic until the end of the year. The bridge is located on the Bedford/Franklin County line in the area of Bridgewater Plaza.
        Beginning September 6, the bridge will be reduced to one lane and a temporary signal will be in place allowing traffic to alternate crossing the bridge. This traffic pattern will remain in place through December 2017 or until bridge deck overlay on the bridge is complete, weather permitting.

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  • Eclipse captures focus of nation

        The weather cooperated. A thunderstorm didn’t move in until late afternoon and the Bedford area had a clear view of the sun when the moon began to drift across it.

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  • Rally leads to violence, deaths

    By Jesse Adcock

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  • Appeal planned

    By Tom Wilmoth
    Editor
    news@bedfordbulletin.com

        Daniel Wayne Brown of Bedford plans to appeal his 10-month sentence for assaulting a police officer and obstructing justice, following his sentencing Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court.

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  • Bedford County man faces assault charges

        On Friday evening August 18, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Bedford Magistrate’s Office advising a female was in their office reporting that she had been assaulted.
        A Bedford County Sheriff’s deputy responded and the woman advised that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend, Brandon Johnson, earlier in the day. She said that Johnson also pointed a shotgun at her and assaulted her with it, according to a report from the BCSO.

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  • Officials investigate ‘suspicious fire’

        Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday morning (August 19) the Hardy and Stewartsville-Chamblissburg fire companies were dispatched to a reported brush fire in the 1400 block of Gravel Hill Road, in  the  Hardy area of Bedford County.
        When the first units arrived, they determined that this was actually a structure fire, reporting a single-family dwelling with heavy fire showing. Additional fire, EMS and support units from Bedford and Roanoke counties then responded.

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