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The U.S. Naval Combat Demolition Unit/Scouts and Raiders Monument Park is on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Photo by Andrew McLeish, courtesy Navy SEAL Museum.
Jun 4, 2024

Clark Nexsen contributes to SEALs D-Day monument

Eighty years after the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France, a Virginia company and other contractors gathered there to unveil a monument honoring the World War II predecessors of the Navy SEALs and special boat crews. The Navy SEAL Museum San Diego, a museum opening late this year and a sister institution to […]

Bedford Economic Development Authority Chairman Jonathan Buttram and town Community Development Director Mary Zirkle at the former Winoa USA plant Photo by Don Petersen
Jul 30, 2023

Bedford firing up tech training

After Winoa USA closed its Bedford steel abrasives plant in 2020, town economic officials came up with the idea of renovating the empty facility into a regional technical training center for the metalworking industry that could include a commercial foundry. In August, the Bedford Economic Development Authority expects to be closer to that goal, with […]

Mary Zirkle, Bedford’s director of planning and community development, is happy to see forward momentum on a proposed Amtrak stop in the town Photo by Don Petersen.
Dec 31, 2021

Bedford lays tracks for possible Amtrak stop

Leigh Ann Ellis is all aboard for Amtrak to begin stopping in the town of Bedford. In the past, Ellis, a journalism teacher at Bedford County’s Staunton River High School, had her students board the train in Lynchburg for field trips to New York or Washington, D.C. For students who live in Goodview, on the […]

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