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Teva helps out at D-Day Memorial

    Teva Pharmaceuticals’ Forest facility was looking for a community project, according to Paul Opdyke, the facility’s human resources director.
    The company settled on helping the National D-Day Memorial get ready for the D-Day anniversary observance on June 6. Opdyke said that he and the plant manager both have been involved in similar projects in other areas. He asked plant employees if they were interested.
    “The response was overwhelming,” he said.

Moose to light up the skies

    The city of Bedford won’t be sponsoring Fourth of July fireworks, but there will be fireworks here after all.
    They just won’t be on July 4.
    According to Andy Dooley, the lodge administrator at the Bedford Moose Lodge, the Moose will sponsor fireworks on July 5.
    Why July 5?
    Dooley said that if you want fireworks on July 4, you have to book a company early. Everybody was all booked up for July 4 at this late date.

Bedford community says goodbye...

By Tom Wilmoth
and John Barnhart
news@bedfordbulletin.com
 

    A lot has changed from the time John Massie Turner served with the Bedford Fire Department until today.
    But the mission hasn’t. Just like it was in the years he served, the department’s goal has been passed on to each generation—to be an aggressive interior firefighting company that gets in, puts the fires out and keeps damage to a minimum.

There will be fireworks — but...

This July 4 the skies surrounding Bedford will be dark—and quiet.

Austin is part of 3-way race for...

    “I feel pretty good about it,” Austin said about securing the Republican nomination for the 19th House of Delegates district. He made a particularly strong showing in Botetourt County.

Moneta man guilty of taking...

    A 19-year-old Moneta man maintained his innocence throughout his trial last Tuesday, but was eventually found guilty of having sexual contact with a minor girl under the age of 13 years old.
    Howard Jamar Witcher entered not guilty pleas to the charges of taking indecent liberties with a minor and aggravated sexual battery, but following a bench trial was found guilty by Circuit Court Judge James Updike.

Brewing political tea in Bedford

    Ann Briscoe got the idea for a Bedford Tea Party when she and her husband, John, attended a Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D. C. in 2010.

    Then, later, she was at a local Republican unit meeting, talking with some people outside when Laura Rodes suggested that Bedford should have a Tea Party. Travis Witt offered to start one if somebody assisted him. Briscoe agreed and that’s how the Bedford Tea Party got rolling.

Board turns down sheriff

    Last week’s supervisors’ meeting began with John Briscoe asking them, during the citizen comment period at the meeting’s beginning, to avoid doing anything that is not revenue neutral.
    Briscoe’s comments were in reference to a request from Sheriff Mike Brown to apply for a federal grant to pay for three school resource officers (SRO) for the county’s elementary schools. Briscoe said that grants like this can increase both the size of the budget and the size of the county’s government.

Man faces six years in prison...

    A 29-year-old Lynchburg man pleaded guilty Friday to seven felonies related to having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl.
    Cody Austin McKay received an 18 year sentence—having an active prison term of 6 years, 10 months to serve of that sentence—for five convictions of carnal knowledge of a minor and two charges of possessing child pornography. Those charges relate to sexually explicit images of the girl McKay had on his cellphone when he was arrested.

Bedford City Council close to...

By Tom Wilmoth and John Barnhart
news@bedfordbulletin.com

    With no residents showing up to speak at a public hearing on the proposed budget for the town of Bedford, which becomes a reality July 1 when the city officially reverts to a town, Bedford City Council is now ready to finalize the community’s first town budget in more than four decades.

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