Today's News

If you watched any of the Republican National Convention, you had to notice the sea of white faces that stared back at you from the hall. It was very difficult to spot a delegate of color.

You couldn’t help but notice, too, that most of those white people appeared to be rather well-heeled, let’s say. Well paid; well off; living the Republican dream.

It shouldn’t be necessary to remind people that the GOP is today what it’s always been: the party of the rich and the privileged, and also a party that remains nearly all white.

What makes a good neighbor?

In a thought, it’s that when the chips are down, those around you are willing to step up to the plate and help. It’s folks helping folks.

And there are a lot of good neighbors around these parts.

For all the bad news that often gets publicized, there’s a lot of good going on around us, too. Even in those tough times.

The Bedford County Planning Commission, Monday night, unanimously approved a request by the Big Otter Mill Foundation that clears the way for the foundation to begin work to open the mill to the public.

The mill is located on a 1.7 acre tract on Va. 122 in an agricultural area, 1.3 miles north of Liberty High School. It was completed in 1920 and is on the Virginia Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. It has also been identified on a Bedford County listing of its historic places. It operated until 1950 and has been abandoned ever since.

Lobsters and the Carroll County Courthouse shootout were topics of a Bedford Kiwanis Club meeting last week.

The two have nothing to do with each other. Scott Carter, of American National Bank, was on hand to present a $1,000 sponsorship check to the club for Lobsterfest.

April Messier, a club member, was there to talk about the shootout.

"We're going to talk about blazing guns," she said.