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“Quite a shock,” commented District 3 Supervisor Roger Cheek. “I would have never thought that in a million years. That’s not the Tony I knew.”
    Cheek was responding to the charges in which Earl Anthony (Tony) Ware has been arrested on seven counts of embezzlement and seven counts of money laundering. The charges stemmed from Ware’s connection to the Big Island Fire Department, the estate of Hattie Routon and a benefit for children.

  There are few things that bond fathers and sons closer than sports.

  After watching their female counterparts lose on a last-minute goal, the Jefferson Forest Cavs got to experience an even more painful ending.  The lads fell to Jamestown on an Eagle goal with less than 20 seconds remaining on the field clock.

An investigation by the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation resulted in the indictment and arrest of Earl Anthony (Tony) Ware of Big Island in Bedford County on June 7. Ware is a former member of the Bedford County Board of Supervisors.