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LHS adopts school damaged in flood from hurricane

    Dr. Kathleen Dills couldn’t be more proud of her school.

Bedford’s Walmart completes renovations

    Twenty-eight years ago Hilda Witt found herself looking for a new job when the store she worked for, Maxway, closed.

Bedford County's XC teams clash at Knights Cross meet

Liberty, Jefferson Forest and Staunton Rivers’ cross country teams clashed at the Knights Crossing meet in Salem.

Business raises funds for hurricane relief

    Blue Ridge Optics, a Bedford high tech manufacturer — they make optics that send laser beams precisely where the engineers, who design equipment, want them to go — is holding a yard sale to raise money for hurricane relief.

    The yard sale is slated for Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The sale will be held at the company’s manufacturing facility in the former Longwood Industries building. It’s located near the Food Lion shopping center and is directly across Big Island Highway from Forks’ parking lot.

Welch receives 48 years for murders of Lyon sisters

Three years ago to the day in which officers from the Montgomery County (Maryland) Police Department’s Cold Case Unit dropped by the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office to lay on the desk of the department a 40-year-old abduction and murder case, at least one of the persons responsible for those murders pleaded guilty to those crimes.

Lynsey Ball uses sports to battle cystic fibrosis

Lynsey Ball radiates positivity. In just a short, ten-minute conversation, Ball’s hyper, bubbly attitude is guaranteed to put a smile on anyone’s face. You would never guess from her upbeat demeanor that Ball, a sophomore, three-sport athlete at Staunton River, has been battling cystic fibrosis (CF) her entire life.

Friends of Mill to build pavilion

    The Friends of Big Otter Mill broke ground on a new permanent pavilion at the Big Otter Mill site on Thursday, August 24.

    Big Otter Mill Board of Directors members Stan Bennett, Sheldon Cash, Nicole Johnson, Kristy Milton and Tom Richardson participated in the ground-breaking ceremony.

RI man to spend 15 years in prison for child porn convictions

    A 45-year-old Rhode Island man, who contacted a local 11-year-old autistic girl through the Internet, will spend 15 years in prison on four child porn charges.
    Paulo B. Tomas, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, was arrested in January by Rhode Island State Police. The charges were related to a child sexual exploitation investigation in Bedford County.

Liberty shuts down Christiansburg

Liberty’s football team picked up where it left off two weeks ago by claiming another win on home soil.

The Minutemen bested Christiansburg 27-13 to move to 2-0 on the season.

Liberty jumped out early by scoring on its first drive as Taylor Carson rushed into the end zone.

The Minutemen would hold the Blue Demons on the Demons’ 24-yard line and forced them to punt down to Liberty’s 30 to give the Minutemen another scoring opportunity.

Tuck is running as an independent

    Edgar Tuck, a lifelong county resident, is seeking the District 2 Supervisor’s seat as an independent.

    He, his father, Billy Tuck, and his brothers own a farm that raises Angus cattle — they have 240 head of cattle on the farm, which  is  under a conservation easement.