Today's News

The flag flying at the Adult Day Care Center, next to Bedford Memorial Hospital, was a community effort.

    The base was built two years ago by John Naples and Josh Harrison, two masonry students at Bedford Science and Technology Center (BSTC). This was part of their classwork. Neil Rommel, the school’s masonry teacher, is always looking for real-world projects for his students. The projects have to be close enough to the school that students can get to them and still have time to do meaningful work during the alloted class time.

On Thursday morning students at Liberty High School took the time to sign posters to give to the family of Chase Landon Jones, the 18-year-old Liberty High School senior who died as the result of injuries suffered during a single-car accident on Bell Town Road in Bedford Wednesday afternoon.

    For the students it was a chance to begin the grieving process of losing a fellow classmate. His funeral was held Monday in Bedford.

Keith Alan of ESPN Outdoors calls Kevin VanDam the King Kong of bass fishing.

    Others call him the Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan of the sport.

    He’s all that — and a lot more.

    Now the four-time Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year can add Blue Ridge Brawl champion to his growing list of accomplishments and the $100,000 champion’s prize to his bank account.

At 10:02 a.m. Tuesday, Bedford County 911 dispatchers received a call reporting that a tree had fallen on a man and he was trapped under the tree.

    The Moneta Rescue Squad and sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the scene at 9395 Moneta Rd. After arriving on the scene, squad members notified dispatchers that the victim was deceased.

    The victim,Harold Kenneth Jones, 62, was cutting down the tree on his property when the accident occurred. A friend of the victim, who was helping, witnessed the accident and called 911.