Today's News

The National Defense Authorization Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law in October, directed the National Park Service to do a study to determine whether the National D-Day Memorial qualifies for inclusion in the national park system.

For eight rounds Rhiannon Cire of Montvale Elementary and Brandi Mitchell of Forest Middle School squared off against one another in last Thursday’s Bedford County Spelling Bee.

    Seventeen students from the county’s middle and elementary schools had started in the contest, but by the seventh round it was down to those final two.

Montvale honored a life-long resident, Monday, on her 100th birthday.

    Virginia Noell was born on Jan. 25, 1911, and grew up on a 230-acre farm in Goose Creek Valley, a daughter of the late Royal and Hattie Boyd Garrett Noell.
    “I loved it!” she said of her early years. “You could run, do anything you wanted and nobody would run over you with an automobile.”