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Keen to serve 15 years

    Wesley Keen and his wife, Sherry Keen, kept a 14-year-old girl padlocked in her room and tortured her.

    A pre-sentence report on Wesley Keen showed guidelines of probation up to six months in jail. He had previously pleaded guilty to four felony charges in this case.
    For Bedford County Circuit Court Judge James Updike, that wasn’t near enough.

Bedford County under Winter...

SALEM DISTRICT: EXPECT SLICK OR ICY ROADS

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

BCSO SRO faces complaint

    On Thursday October 11, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint containing accusations against Cpl. Daniel Clark and his behavior with a juvenile.

       A 2003 graduate of Liberty High School, Clark has been serving as a School Resource Office at LHS since 2012. He became a sheriff’s deputy in 2007.

Shoen, Rush and Wandrei win Town...

   

Election results

 

            Tim Kaine won easy reelection to the United States Senate. Kaine got 57 percent of the vote while Corey Stewart received 41 percent.

Public hearing to be held on...

    Town Council authorized, last week after closed door meetings,  a public hearing on a proposal made by David McCormack to repurpose the empty school buildings of Bedford Middle School and Old Yellow. The hearing will be held in Council chambers on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
    According to Town Manager Bart Warner, Council felt they needed to gauge public feeling on the project. At present, there is no tentative agreement between McCormack and the town.
    “Neither party has agreed to anything,” Warner said.

Robertson: Hope Tree ignoring...

    According to Dr. William Robertson, Hope Tree, the ministry that currently owns Camp Virginia Jaycee located in Bedford County, is ignoring him.

    “The leadership of Hope Tree is not letting me meet with the full board,” Dr. Robertson said in a press conference, Thursday morning.
    “I have twice asked to meet with the full board and I have been twice denied,” he said.

Man lost three sons in three...

    Veterans Day was formerly called Armistice Day. That’s because Nov. 11 marked the day that the armistice that ended the Great War took effect.

    World War I was once known as the Great War before World War II, which was even bloodier, came along. Sunday marks the centennial of the end of that war.

He loves to court hatred and...

    It took an awful lot of gall for Donald Trump to say that “we need to unify” after the mailed bombs from one of his crazed supporters and the fatal shooting of Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh.
    A call to unify? Coming from him? No one has done more to divide us than this hateful, spiteful, miserable pretender who, in fact, specializes in racist wolf whistles and appeals to hatred.

County rebrands its outreach...

    Bedford County’s department of tourism is in the final stages of a rebranding effort. According to Nicole Johnson, the county’s new brand is “Destination Bedford.”

Officially dedicated

    Liberty Middle School was officially dedicated last week.