Nelson : UVA Makes It Official : New Pharmacy Opens in Nellysford

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Photo By BRL Mountain Photographer Paul Purpura : Members of the UVA Pharmacy Support team make it official with a ribbon cutting just before noon Monday n Nellysford. For the first time in a few years, a pharmacy is now open in the Valley Green Shopping Center. November 20, 2023

Nellysford
Nelson County, Virginia

Since 2019 the pharmacy location in Nellysford has been vacant. After 32 years, in some form or location, Stoney Creek Pharmacy permanently closed that year. Bob Ladd, the founding owner, went back into business briefly to keep a pharmacy open in Nellysford, but ultimately shuttered it for good.

Rite Aid in Lovingston, which evolved into Walgreens, eventually closed leaving the area  without a regular, convenient retail pharmacy.  

Blue Ridge Medical Pharmacy in the far south end of the county generally follows clinic hours and is geographically located away from more densely populated areas.

Way back in 2005, then owner, the late Cheryl Tompkins (left) stands in front of the old Stoney Creek Pharmacy in Afton where the late Dr. Bob Raynor had his medical office. This is where the drug store was last located before it returned to Nellysford in 2006. UVA officially opened their new pharmacy on Monday – November 20, 2023

Cheryl above eventually closed the Afton location and moved it to Nellysford. She operated the pharmacy in Valley Green until 2013 when she sadly passed away from cancer. 

The pharmacy went through a couple of ownership changes after Cheryl died, but eventually closed. It all came full circle in December 2017 when Bob Ladd, the very first owner of Stoney Creek Pharmacy decades ago reopened the store.

Eventually Bob told me in a June 2019 interview, it just didn’t make financial sense to keep the store open and he was calling it quits.

Jeff Truslow, President of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce (right) is all smiles as he chats it up during the official opening of the UVA Stoney Creek Pharmacy in Nellysford on Monday – November 20, 2023.

Thankfully the new pharmacy is now open in Nellysford.

For more information on operating hours and additional services at the pharmacy, head on over to their website page here.

Welcome to Nellysford!

 

 

 

 

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