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There will be some changes this year as some 10,500 students head back to Bedford County Public Schools on Monday.

    For some, class sizes will be bigger; some class offerings have been eliminated all together. At some smaller elementary schools, some grades might even be combined in one class. It’s the new normal — not just for BCPS but for most school divisions across the commonwealth.

    A local veteran, a retired sergeant major with four decades of service, recently sent me an e-mail that showed that some people still appreciate us.

Folks all across our nation are worried.  They worry if their job is still going to be around in six months.  They worry about what will happen to their families, their children, and their homes if their employer shuts down and they find themselves out of work.  Unfortunately, too many people are facing this situation today with nationwide unemployment hovering around ten percent.

    I’m like you. I’d never heard of Wikileaks until the release this past week of some 91,000 pages of secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.

    The Website Wikileaks.org specializes in blowing the whistle on corporate and government secrets. The leak of these documents is the biggest Afghanistan story in a long time.