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Today's News

  • Bedford’s Teachers of Tomorrow scores national honor

        The  Teachers for Tomorrow program at Bedford Science and Technology Center (BSTC) earned an honor last month when students participated in the Future Educators Association (FEA) National Conference held in Baltimore, Md.

        Four Bedford County students along with Shawn Horrell, the Teachers for Tomorrow instructor, participated. This was the Bedford program’s first trip to the event, and the first time the students entered a project in the FEA National Competition.

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  • New ambulance takes to the road

        A career ambulance crew that has been using a borrowed ambulance, provided courtesy of the Montvale Rescue Squad, now has its own. According to Jack Jones, the county’s director of fire and rescue, the ambulance was purchased from money obtained from insurance billing, rather than tax money. This is the second county-owned ambulance put into service this year.

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  • Man pleads guilty to last year's Goode Country Store robbery

    A Bedford man charged with the armed robbery of Goode Country Store last March, pleaded guilty Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court to six felonies.

        Jason Anthony Jackson, 32, is scheduled to be sentenced May 8.
        The charges included two counts of robbery, one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, one count of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, one count of use of a firearm in commission of a felony and one count of wearing a mask in public.

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  • Bus driver, aide file responses to lawsuit

        The former Bedford County Public Schools bus driver and aide, named as defendants in a $20 million lawsuit filed by the father of a special education student, deny abusing the boy while he was being transported on their bus in 2009.
        In separate filings responding to the lawsuit in Lynchburg Circuit Court, both bus driver Alice Davis Holland and her aide, Mary Alice Evans, claimed that the allegations of abuse of the 11-year-old student, Timothy Earl Kilpatrick, were false.

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  • Sheriff, former SRO named in $3M lawsuit

        Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown and Ernest Grubbs, a former Liberty High School (LHS) school resource officer, are facing a $3 million lawsuit. The suit was filed Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court by Elvin McCombs on behalf of his daughter, Audrey McCombs.

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  • Bringing the arts to Bedford

        When the Bower Center for the Arts experienced financial difficulties three years ago, the organization was forced to let its executive director go.
        There wasn’t enough money to pay her.

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  • Main Street president voices support for former director

        Bedford Main Street Inc. President Kathy McGary said the charge against that organization’s former interim executive director “is going to feel very trivial” when the truth comes out.
        Last week Daniel A. Plattus, 46, was charged with one count of credit card fraud by the Bedford Police Department. Plattus had been serving as Bedford Main Street’s only full-time employee, but resigned prior to the charge being filed by police because he thought it would be in the best interest of Bedford Main Street.

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  • Plattus denies credit card fraud charge

    Dan Plattus, who had been serving as interim executive director of Bedford Main Street, has been charged with credit card fraud, according to Bedford Police Chief Jim Day.

        According to Day, on February 2, the Bedford Police Department received a complaint from a local business regarding suspicious credit card charges.  Investigators reviewed documents supplied by the business and interviewed the suspect. 

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  • Five golds for local tracksters

    While E.C. Glass swept the team titles, individual county athletes did quite well for themselves at last Saturday's Region III indoor track championship.
    All three county schools had their girls teams finish in the top ten. The Staunton River boys finished fourth, as a team.
    Jefferson Forest freshman phenom Alyssa Shupe swept to a pair of first-place finishes while her older counterpart, Staunton River senior Stuart Robertson, set a meet mark in his victory.
    Forest pole vaulter Ken Ritchey took top honors, while River's Lillian Garrecht picked up a surprise win in the long jump.

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  • Community Events and Calendar (week of Feb. 29, 2012)

     

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