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Today's News

  • Music teacher's charges certified to grand jury

        Charges against a Lynchburg man, accused of taking indecent liberties with a minor female student he taught at a music school, will go to a Bedford County grand jury.

        On Fri-day Dec. 19, Luis Roberto Mendez, 42, was arrested and charged with two counts of taking indecent liberty with a child. He has been held in the Bedford Adult Detention Center on no bond since his arrest.
        At  a  bond  hearing  appeal, Judge James Updike deemed him as a flight risk, denying Mendez bond.

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  • The art of science

    By Regina Carson
    Community Outreach Coordinator
    RVGS

        At the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School for Science and Technology, students are charged each year with carrying out a science fair project.
        This year, Gov. School/Staunton River High School senior Bronson Aznavorian elected to work in the biotechnology field on a project titled Comparing the Efficacy of Homeopathic Treatments in Inactivating Escherichia coli O157:H7.

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  • GOP to decide next month on process to select its candidates

        Three candidates for this fall’s board of supervisors elections, Andy Dooley (District 6), Kevin Willis (District 7)  and John Messier (District 5) have said they are seeking the Republican nomination.
         Two of those seats, District 5 and District 7 are held by incumbents who are Republicans. District 5 Supervisor Steve Arrington and District 7 Supervisor Tammy Parker have not yet announced whether they will seek reelection.
        How will the local Republican Party unit make its nominations?

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  • LHS students show determination to raise funds for a new sign

    By Olivia Watts

    SCA Reporter

        The Liberty High School student body continues to raise money for a new digital sign for the front lawn.

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  • Firefighter awards

        The Bedford Volunteer Fire Department honored outstanding members during its 107th annual awards banquet, Saturday. The fire department is 126 years old.

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  • Community remembers MLK Jr.

        The pastor had a message—the God of the mountaintop is also the God of the valley.

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  • Rallying support for one of their own

        Captain Joel Starnes, of the Forest Fire Department, got some bad news just before Christmas. He was diagnosed with leukemia.

        According to Ryan Burnette, the fire department’s public information officer, Starnes started to receive chemotherapy at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond.

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  • Council considers raising electric rates

        Electric rates in the town of Bedford will likely increase 4 percent Feb. 1, if council approves a resolution it is expected to consider next Tuesday.
        That increase would be in addition to a 3 percent increase that went into effect this past July 1.
        The resolution is being prepared for consideration following council’s called meeting Tuesday afternoon where it met—via computer—with a representative of Utility Financial Solutions LLC about the financial issues of the electric department.

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  • Hostutler elected School Board chairman

        On a 4-2 vote Thursday, District 4 representative Gary Hostutler was reelected chairman of the Bedford County School Board for the upcoming year.
        The vote took place during the board’s organizational meeting.

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  • Sister to Sister Catering & Coffee House

    By Patricia C Held

    Contributing writer

        Helen Walters pairs a passion for cooking with a flair for hosting at her Sister to Sister Catering & Coffee House in downtown Bedford.
        Growing up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Helen described family dinners at her home as never dull. “We always had company and there never was a boring moment.”

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