Bedford Cultural Council Seeks Input in Annual Community Survey by The Bedford Citizen May 25, 2022 1 min read The Bedford Cultural Council’s (BCC) annual community input survey takes the pulse of what Bedford residents want to see in the future. Read More
A.E. Brown’s History of Bedford is Getting a 21st Century Makeover by Mike Rosenberg May 24, 2022 2 mins read Abram English Brown, whose name is synonymous with Bedford’s early history, had an overflowing agenda in the latter part of the 19th Read More
Community Voices: What’s it’s Like to Have Long Covid: A Personal Story by The Bedford Citizen May 14, 2022 4 mins read ~ Submitted by Holly Chessman Today, I’m weary. No, that doesn’t really cover it. I’m bone-achingly, mind-numbingly exhausted. I’m Read More
“Ukraine Forward” ~ Bedford Resident Works to Publicize the Plight of her Native Land by The Bedford Citizen May 13, 2022 2 mins read Bedford resident Natalya Wood is trying to help Ukraine survive and repel the Russian invasion. It’s personal – Wood was born and Read More
Real Estate Transfers ~ April 29, 2022 by Jerry Wolf May 13, 2022 1 min read Please join us in bidding adieu to the sellers and welcoming Bedford’s newest residents. Read More
The Oldest Flag? Part II by The Bedford Citizen May 9, 2022 2 mins read Have you ever gone to the Bedford Free Public Library to look at the Bedford Flag? Over the years, when I have Read More
Roe v. Wade – What’s Bedford Thinking? by Gene Kalb May 9, 2022 1 min read As you may know, abortion law in the United States is based on the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Roe Read More
NewsCenter 5’s New On-Air Reporter? BHS Grad Danae Bucci by Mike Rosenberg May 5, 2022 4 mins read Danae Bucci has a message for high-school students. “Sometimes your ultimate career goals feel super far off. But never put limits on Read More
Bedford Rotarians Packaged more than 10,000 Meals for Kids by The Bedford Citizen May 3, 2022 1 min read ~ Submitted by the Rotary Club of Bedford The Rotary Club of Bedford held its Meals for Kids meal packaging event on Read More
Covid Numbers – What do they Mean? What’s Bedford Thinking? by Gene Kalb April 30, 2022 1 min read Last week The Boston Globe and WBUR each reported the current case count of Covid numbers that were completely different. I Read More
The Places They’ll Go: Catch up with BHS Grads by Gene Kalb April 27, 2022 1 min read Alexander (Olek) Pisera, BHS Class of 2013, has been awarded a $90,000 fellowship by the Paul and Daisy Soros “Fellowships for New Read More
‘Month of the Military Child’ Salutes Bedford High School’s Hanscom AFB Students by Mike Rosenberg April 26, 2022 6 mins read April, according to the Department of Defense, “is designated as the Month of the Military Child, a time to applaud military families Read More
Bedford Explained – Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital by Gene Kalb April 26, 2022 2 mins read On Springs Road lies the sprawling Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, locally known as “the Bedford VA.” What is the story Read More
Climate Change, What’s Bedford Thinking? by Gene Kalb April 25, 2022 1 min read In honor of Earth Day we thought we would take a break from all the bad news about the war raging in Read More
Earth Day, 2022 ~ Acting on its Corporate Commitments, Novanta’s Environmental Clean-up by Julie McCay Turner April 23, 2022 1 min read Novanta's offices and manufacturing facility on Middlesex Turnpike back onto a picturesque wetland that drains into the Beaver Brook watershed. Daniel Martin, Read More
Why Do I Care? A Podcast for Teens ~ Produced by BHS Sophomore Toby Favalora by Mike Rosenberg April 21, 2022 3 mins read Toby Favalora says he “can’t wait” until the mid-term Congressional elections, still more than six months away. He’s not a candidate for Read More
Real Estate Transfers ~ April 1, 2022 by The Bedford Citizen April 21, 2022 1 min read Please join us in bidding adieu to the sellers and welcoming Bedford’s newest residents. Read More
Welcoming New Library Trustee Padma Choudry by Dorothy Bergin April 21, 2022 2 mins read Padma Choudry, the newly elected Trustee of the Bedford Free Public Library, firmly acknowledges she is a “lifelong library patron” no matter Read More
The Bedford Citizen’s 2021 Annual Report by Christine Speciale April 21, 2022 1 min read The Bedford Citizen is your free and independent news source. Each day we bring you relevant, informative, and local news. We are Read More
Existential Crisis ~ We Have the Second Oldest Flag? by The Bedford Citizen April 19, 2022 1 min read There are some things you take for granted: the sun rises in the east, it will always rain after you wash your Read More
Ecumenical Lay-led Community Service at Fawn Lake ~ Easter Sunday, April 17 at 6:30 am by The Bedford Citizen April 15, 2022 1 min read ~ Submitted by First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church The 69th annual Easter Dawn Service at Fawn Lake will be held on Sunday, Read More
The Oldest Flag? by The Bedford Citizen April 14, 2022 1 min read Revered far and wide as the oldest flag in the United States, our Bedford Flag lies sleeping securely in the Bedford Free Read More
Bedford Runner Ian Marling to Compete in Monday’s Boston Marathon by Mike Rosenberg April 12, 2022 2 mins read As he prepares to compete in the Boston Marathon on April 18, Ian Marling of Bedford is certain of one thing: “I’m Read More
Introducing the ‘Bedford Explained’ podcast ~ Episode One: Pole Capping Day by Gene Kalb April 8, 2022 1 min read The Bedford Citizen has had an ongoing column called Bedford Explained for several years. The idea is simple, as the name suggests; Read More
BHS Student Honored as Delegate to National 4-H Conference by Mike Rosenberg April 8, 2022 2 mins read As an active member of 4-H, Bedford High School sophomore Harrison Sachs is connecting to the town’s agricultural past – and the Read More