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School board changes grading policy

    Students’ voices can be heard and can lead to change.
    A proposal generated by last year’s Student Advisory Council led the Bedford County School Board to change the school system’s grading policy for the upcoming school year.

Home invasion suspenct killed in shootout with deputy

At 8:03 p.m. Tuesday night, Bedford County 911 dispatchers received a call from 1554 Stewartsville Road, Moneta. The caller reported that she was home alone and was in the shower, when a male broke into her home. He grabbed her and pulled her out of the shower while holding a hand gun to her head. He demanded she give him her car keys. When she did not, he tried hot wire her vehicle. When his efforts to start the car failed he left the victims home riding what she described as a moped and traveled west on Stewartsville Road.

Descendents of plantation owner say ancestors buried in old cemetery

    An old graveyard on U. S. 460, just east of the Applebee’s restaurant, was the subject of a court hearing in Bedford County Circuit Court Monday morning.

New life for Big Island Post 217

 

The dead walk among us!

But, fear not.  There's no need to call out the CDC or the Zombie Response Unit.

In this case, it's Big Island Post 217's American Legion senior baseball team playing the role of the walking undead.

When last we left the Islanders, they were dealing with the fact they'd been eliminated in the District 10 playoffs, a 21-16 loss to Lynchburg Post 16.

Lynchburg advanced to the finals, where it was topped by Danville.

Shop, café open in Bedford

    Looking for a walk down memory lane? Retro on Depot might be just the place for you.

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.

Town to assist in feasibility study for Amtrak stop

    The group has a logo, a dream and some proposed plans.
    And now it will have the help of the town of Bedford staff.
    The logo: “I WANT a Train Station in Bedford.”
    The dream: For Amtrak to add Bedford as a stop on its route between Roanoke and Lynchburg, scheduled to begin in 2017.
    The plans: three possible sites for the station in Bedford to be located.

Two decomposing bodies found at Evington home

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.

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.

Being Christ's hands and feet

    For more than 30 years, adults, youth and children from all over Virginia have been converging on Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center, between Big Island and Coleman Falls.