Today's News

Frank Rogers, who was appointed interim county administrator last week, isn’t new to the neighborhood.

    Rogers first came here as assistant county administrator in September, 2005. Prior to that, he had been special projects manager in York County. This was a catch-all position in which he managed several areas including housing and neighborhood revitalization, community services and the county’s financial unit.

    A look out your window, Monday morning, would make you think it was winter.

    Of course, it is still winter, regardless of what the daffodils and crocuses blooming in the Bedford area seem to think.
    According to Patrick Wilson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Blacksburg Office, Sunday's storm brought the Bedford area between 5- and 7- inches of the white stuff. The heaviest snowfall was in the part of the county near Lynchburg, with the lightest amounts toward the south.

Kristina Pongracz will spend more than a decade in prison for the killing of her 77-year-old boyfriend, William Herchenrider, in May, 2010. Pongracz, now 30, was 28 at the time of the attack.

Herchenrider died on August 25, 2010, after briefly returning home from the hospital, under Hospice care. Pongracz had been with Herchenrider for 10 years, prior to the incident in May 2010.

By Sherese A. Gore
Capital News Service Writer
and
Tom Wilmoth
Editor

    RICHMOND – Two bills moving through the General Assembly would authorize volunteer fire departments to charge homeowners’ insurance policies after responding to fire-related emergencies.
    One measure is House Bill 1202, sponsored by Delegate Joseph Johnson, D-Abingdon. It unanimously passed the House on Wednesday.