Today's News

    West Main Street isn’t the Yellow Brick Road, but there is a tin man on a ladder painting a post in front of Dirt Road Treasures.

Bedford lost one of the last two remaining Bedford Boys Thursday evening.

    Pride Wingfield, who died at the age of 96, was with  Company A when the unit was called to federal service in February, 1941 for what they thought was going to be a year of active duty. It turned out to be for a lot longer than that when Japanese naval aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7.

    This week the Bedford Police Department began prohibiting Bedford Primary School parents from parking on the west side of Bedford Avenue when dropping off or picking up their children from school.

    Police urge parents to park on College Street and let the student cross with the crossing guard there or get in  line with other parents who let students off at the door.

    With $1 million approved by the Board of Supervisors for maintenance projects this year, the Bedford County School Board made a priority list of just what projects the school system will seek to complete this year.