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Today's News

  • Forest couple seeks to keep Nepali girls from sex slavery

        Ken and Diana Harbour, who own Blue Crane Accupuncture in Forest, also operate a Christian Mission organization called Barnabas Fellowship, which was founded in 1990 and is focused on Nepal.

         The couple have visited Nepal a number of times since 1986. They started a program in 2009, as part of Barnabas, called Save the Daughters Project.

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  • Korean War veteran writes about conflict

        “There aren’t many books written about Korea,” said Korean War veteran Bob VandeLinde.

        There wasn’t much written about the war even as it was going on. VandeLinde said that he looked through old editions of his hometown newspaper — 37 months worth — published in the early 1950s and found no mention of the war in them. There are almost no movies about the Korean War and VandeLinde said that one, Heartbreak Ridge, is very exaggerated.

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  • Swimming in ice water

        Robert Dooley, born and raised in Thaxton, now resides at Carriage Hill. He’s 86 and his memory is fading.

        But Dooley can still recall the events that resulted in him being awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in combat.

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  • Grubbs pleads guilty

        Although Ernest Grubbs pleaded guilty, Friday, to five felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, he was released from jail that evening.

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  • Now’s the Time – Resolve to be Ready in 2013!


        New year … new start!  Now is the time for you and your family to make an important resolution for 2013 that won’t cost much and could save a lot of heartache: resolve to be ready for any emergency.
        Whether severe winter storms, tornadoes, spring flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes or something else hits Virginia next year, you can be prepared ahead of time. 

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  • Christmas Memories

    By Becky Wuergler
    Bedford

        Christmas in the country in the early 1950’s  was  a Currier and Ives moment.   I remember it well.
        It was a time of family and friends, and less about gifts.  We always had gifts under the tree, but Christmas was so much more than that.

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  • Protecting Americans right to work

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  • Christmas, Peace, and George McGovern

    Surely another Christmas is not about to pass, although the calendar would disagree.
        Time flies when you’re having fun is the old saying. But once you get past a certain age, well, time just flies anyway.
        “So, this is Christmas,” John Lennon wrote. “And what have you done? Another year older; another year gone.”
        But the rest of the song is not as depressing as all that; nor should    we be about the passing of yet another year.

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  • Up to mischief

        As if you weren’t peeved at banks enough:  Now comes HSBC.
        The two seminal issues of America’s 21st century have been the War on Terror and our ongoing economic malaise.
        The two are not independent of one another.  Undoubtedly, the vast treasure we have spent pursuing bad guys has been a drain on our economic strength.

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  • Really Good News

    And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
        (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
        And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
        And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

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