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Accident injures four in Bedford

    An accident late Monday afternoon in Bedford sent four people to area hospitals, though no injuries appeared to be life threatening.

    According to Lt. Todd Foreman of the Bedford Police Department, around 4:40 p.m. a blue Toyota Camry, which was northbound on Independence Boulevard, apparently crossed the center line of the road and struck a Land Rover, which was southbound at the time of the accident.

He’s been a mentor to many at...

    If you ever happened to be at the Bedford YMCA when Sgt. Charles Nelms of the Bedford Police Department was lifting weights, you knew why it was foolish for anybody to try to resist arrest when he hauled that person in. In his prime, Nelms bench pressed 365 pounds.

    Nelms officially retired on July 1 and the Police Department held a farewell dinner for him at Olde Liberty Station Monday. During the dinner, officers who worked with him and for him offered compliments and some humorous stories.

Two dead at Evington home

    The investigation is continuing into the discovery of two partially decomposed bodies found this weekend at an Evington home.

    On Saturday July 19, at 1:30 p.m., a Bedford County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a home located at 2478 Tucker Terrace, Evington, after receiving a call from a neighbor, according to Major Ricky Gardner of the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.
    Ruby Laughon is listed as the owner of the property where the bodies were discovered.

Two decomposing bodies found at...

Two decomposing bodies have been discovered at an Evington home.

On Saturday July 19, at 1:30 p.m., a Bedford County sheriff’s deputy responded to a home at Tucker Terrace, Evington, after receiving a call from a neighbor, according to Major Ricky Gardner of the Bedford County Sheriff's Office.

Raising funds, building young...

    Dr. William B. Robertson is a brilliant fundraiser. Camp Virginia Jaycee exists because of his fundraising prowess.

    He is also a builder of men. This past week he was in the area doing both.

The camp
    Back in 1968, Dr. Robertson got the vision for building a camp for special needs people, along with the idea of how to raise money to build it. His idea was to by jars of apple jelly, wholesale, for 15 cents each and sell them for $1 each.

Bedford Police Chief to retire

    Jimmy Carter was president and interest rates on home mortgages were at 21 percent.

    The late ‘70s weren’t a good time to be selling real estate, but that’s what James Day was doing back then. So he started applying for other jobs, including with the Roanoke Police Department.
    He got the job and what started out as an interim job—two or three years until the real estate market came back—became his career.

Australian Army donates flag

    The National D-Day Memorial flies the flags of every allied nation that had forces that participated in the D-Day landings.

    The hilltop where the Memorial is located is probably the windiest spot in Bedford and the flags take a beating whipping in the wind everyday. Volunteers make repairs to them but, eventually, the flags must be replaced.

Flushed

    A decision by the Bedford Regional Water Authority’s (BRWA) board of directors last week put an end to a local developer’s plan for a public/private partnership to extend a sewer line to Moneta Elementary School.

Citizens: Hire new tourism...

    Several people spoke Monday evening,  during the citizen comment period that precedes every board of supervisors meeting, urging the county leaders to act soon to hire a new tourism director.
    The job came open last month when the previous tourism director, Sergei Troubetzkoy, left to take a job with Lynchburg starting that city’s first tourism department.

Dooley thanks council for...

    Andy Dooley, the Bedford Moose Lodge’s administrator and chairman of its fireworks committee, spoke to Bedford Town Council last week.
    “I thanked them for the donation and allowing public works to help us with the current fireworks,” he said in a phone interview.
    The town had made a $2,000 donation to support this year’s fireworks display.