Today's News

    A red school bus emblazoned with Sol Food Mobile Farm, rolled into Ellen Mackey’s Bedford driveway Friday morning. The crew, four young adults from Durham, N.C., stopped to relax a bit before continuing their trip to Washington D. C.

    The four, Eliza Bordley, Reid Rosemond, Ellen Duda and Dylan Hammond have been friends since they were 10. They attended middle and high school together, a magnet school for the arts. After high school graduation, they stayed in contact

  Sunscreen, sweat and scoring.

Janie Mantooth, a licensed clinical social worker, has run her counseling practice at the foot of Turkey Mountain Road for several years. Now she’s moved to town.

    Mantooth acquired the 1936 vintage house one East Main Street, in Bedford. The house most recently was home to Hamilton’s, a shop operated by the late Peter Viemeister, which included vintage books and antique toys among its merchandise, providing a good retirement business for a former rocket scientist and aerospace executive.

    Bedford’s city council race will be a competitive affair this year as two men are challenging the four incumbents for seats this fall. Bedford’s city council seats are at-large seats, so the two are not challenging any specific individual.

     Stacey Hailey and Michael Schneider will be running along with incumbents Guy E. Murray, Steve C. Rush, W.D. “Skip” Tharp and Robert T. Wandrei. Tharp is currently serving as mayor and Wandrei as vice mayor. Those positions are elected by council from among its members.