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Last week was Super Tuesday and both political parties held a massive number of primary elections. The Republicans held primaries in 15 states.

Last week advanced placement government students got a tour of county government under the Bedford One program. Bedford One is an initiative o…

Donald Trump scored another very solid victory in the South Carolina Republican primary. He got 60% of the vote, beating Nikki Haley by 20 points.

Maybe the groundhog was right. We are in for an early spring. After all, who could doubt a long range weather forecast given by a large, burro…

Last week, Dr. Karen Woodford, Bedford County’s Deputy Superintendent of schools, updated the school board on the latest round of benchmark te…

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Bedford will be saying “goodbye” to D. W. Lawnhorne next week. Lawhorne, who has been Bedford’s director of public works since 1998, will have…

It is now 2024. Nothing magic happened when you changed to a new calendar. Everything looks the same as it did last month. Whatever good situa…

This is it for 2023. The year ends Sunday. It’s interesting that the last day of the year is 123123. This century has brought some interesting…

All county elected officials, who were elected last month, were sworn in in Circuit Court Friday. The ceremony was conducted by Judge James Updike.

It’s almost next year. There are only 18 days left in 2023 and soon it will be 2024. We really don’t know what next year will bring, but barri…

Raymond Hoback’s Bible has found a home at the National D-Day Memorial. His little sister, Lucille Boggess donated it, after consistent persua…

Things are getting ugly in Congress. There is shouting and name calling. Physical threats have been made. Some have even gotten physical with …

Town Council elections, in Bedford, are kind of like a game of musical chairs. All town councilmen represent the entire town, rather than one …

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Death claimed another important figure in our local orchardist community. Nancy Johnson was taken from Danny Johnson, and us, on October 28.

People constantly want this, that and the other from government, but often don't realize how much this, that and the other costs. Unfortunatel…

The Central and Southwestern Virginia Honor Flight took off from the National D-Day Memorial last Friday. The D-Day Memorial can’t act as an a…

Bedford County’s School Board made a great decision last week. They changed their agenda format so that their long closed session, that has lo…

The Bedford area said goodbye to one of its outstanding citizens last week. Walter Gross, who ran A. J. Gross and Sons died at the age of 89. …

Last week, a visibly upset Town Council spoke of unnamed individuals who want to defund the police. Councilman Bob Carson complained that unna…

Last Saturday was supposed to be Centerfest Saturday. Last year, a beautiful sunny, hot, Saturday filled the streets with 7,000 people. It’s t…

In the past, most of our local elections have been sad affairs. They were sad because nobody challenged the incumbents. In those cases, all th…

Bedford seems to be taking positive economic steps forward.

The Bedford Police Department is going to have to make do with the bat cave they work out of. Town Council put a new police department buildin…

In order for students to park cars in their high school’s student parking lot, they have to get a permit authorizing them to park there. In or…