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Baseball: No shortage of offense for Golden Eagles

By: Denton Day
Sports Editor
sports@bedfordbulletin.com

It had been about 10 days since either team stepped on the diamond to play a game. But on the return from Spring Break the Staunton River Golden Eagles had no shortage of offense.
  

Staunton River took the first of two match ups between the Bedford County rivals, 12-2.
  

County tax rates to stay the same

    The Bedford County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing, Monday night on the county’s budget and proposed tax rates. Nobody spoke at either hearing. The hearing was held in the supervisors regular meeting chamber and was sparsely attended.
    “This is a flat tax rate,” County Administrator Carl Boggess said.
    All tax rates remained that same as they are for the current fiscal year. The supervisors unanimously adopted these tax rates.

Gardner 'steadfast' in integrity of investigation

    Major Ricky Gardner said he stands “steadfast in my belief in the integrity of the investigation” of the murders of Derek and Nancy Haysom and the outcome of the subsequent trial, which resulted in the conviction of Jens Soering for committing the brutal murders of the couple in 1985.

Wounded Warrior Softball team coming to Bedford

The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball team will make its way to Bedford on Saturday April 28 for a doubleheader.
    

Bedford will be the final leg to the team’s tour of Virginia. Starting in Manassas, VA on April 21 the team will go city-to-city until they reach Bedford.
    

The team is made up of veterans and active duty soliders from all U.S. Military service branches, who have endured injuries that have led to amputation.
    

Baseball: Cavaliers win Tarboro Easter Classic

By: Denton Day
Sports Editor
sports@bedfordbulletin.com

While the Bedford County public schools were on Spring Break the Jefferson Forest baseball team traveled down to Tarboro, North Carolina to compete in the Tarboro Easter Classic.
    

The tournament gave the Cavaliers the chance to play against teams outside of the state of Virginia. Jefferson Forest matched up with three teams from North Carolina and finished with an average margin of victory of nine runs.
    

Run to benefit YMCA program is Sat.

    The annual Blossom to Bottle run will take place at Johnson’s Orchard Saturday, starting at 5 p.m.

    This year’s event as a new feature. It will still have its 5K course, but a new 3K route has been added.
    “You can run or walk,” said Nancy Johnson.

Softball: Lady Minutemen continue to roll

Twelve days after defeating Staunton River 4-0 on the Lady Golden Eagles field the Lady Minutemen softball team hosted the Lady Golden Eagles.
    

The score was closer but the result was the same. Liberty (7-0) defeated Staunton River (3-3) 1-0. Two days earlier the Lady Minutemen took down Lord Botetourt 3-1.
    

Legislation provides a solution

By Ed Baine
Senior Vice President
Power Delivery, Dominion Energy.

    For generations, the power company has had a fairly simple relationship with the communities it serves. Customers expected a few basic things to happen: Keep the lights on. Restore power as quickly as possible after an outage. Provide affordable rates.

There is no triumph of science

    It’s always fun to read “The Liberal Agenda” when Rick Howell writes about the Bible or history. His column, last week, was no exception.

John Sharp is right

    A while back I wrote a column with the title “Kevin Willis is right,” This time, it’s John Sharp who is on the right track.