Huddleston News

Hear Evelyn Kowalchuk describe her experience as a flight nurse in the days after the D-Day invasion in an audio-slideshow. Maybe it was curiosity or yearning for adventure that led Evelyn Kowalchuk to leave her New Jersey upbringing to become a flight nurse during World War II.

Bonnie Sheehan was one of the women driving the truck. She told the Contra Costa Times that the cross country trip from California to Virginia was an effort to end her lifetime passion for rescuing animals and begin a new phase in her life.

Huddleston Elementary School fifth-A grader Hannah Wood participates in the school's recycling program, which has earned $1,300 for the PTA.

He said at the end of Thursday's board meeting that he will step down due to "illness, health issues with my immediate family, financial considerations, business opportunities." Vaden, a Huddleston resident, was appointed to the board in 2009 and was elected later that year with no opposition.

A Bedford County grand jury indicted three people, who are accused of being involved in a string of break-ins in the Huddleston area and elsewhere in Bedford County last year, on a total of 36 felony charges Tuesday.