Nellyford
Nelson County, VA
We first told you about the plight of missing Nelly Mae from the Nelson Farmers Market Coop in a story here and here.
Apparently the Bear Brigade is serious. Last night a bear turned up in place of missing Nelly Mae!
Now we have noticed Save Nelly May t-shirts around in some of the area stores.
More as we know!
Lovingston
Nelson County, VA
It’s Nelson County’s only intersection with a traffic light and it didn’t even have that one until a few years back. It’s been the spot of numerous auto accidents over the years.
Friday afternoon another accident happened there, this time blocking Callohill Drive just west of the traffic light. The vehicle seen above flipped on it’s side near the intersection. Our Facebook friend Lisa Saunders snapped the picture above shortly after the accident.
According to witnesses on the scene, luckily it appeared no one was severely injured.
Afton
Nelson County, VA
Most everyone is gearing up for the Nelson Relay For Life in May, but North Branch School held a pre Mini Relay For Life within the past week.
Groups of students, staff, and parents walked throughout the school day in support of the Nelson Relay for Life. A brief opening ceremony at 9:00 AM began the day with remarks by Amy Kirchner, Community Manager of the South Atlantic Division of the American Cancer Society.
At the closing ceremony, North Branch Head Teacher, Charlotte Zinsser Booth, presented Nelson Relay for Life Chair, Amber Drumheller, with over $700 collected for the American Cancer Society.
Afton
Nelson County, VA
We first told you about some of the renovation taking place at RVCC in this post a back in March. The old style original windows in the auditorium/gymnasium of the Rockfish Valley Community Center had been hidden away behind a false ceiling that was put in several years back. Volunteers recently started peeling away that drop ceiling to bring the decades old school back to its original state.
The work continues!
Neat!
Wintergreen
Nelson County, VA
We first showed you the beautiful pictures that Paul and Marcie shot up in the mountains in this post.
Here’s a few more miscellaneous ones Paul grabbed Monday before the snow tapered off.
Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, VA
People got a chance to travel back to the 1940’s, the time of Bogart and Bergman, this past Saturday night. It was all part of a spring fundraiser for Wintergreen Performing Arts that’s gearing up for the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival.
The theme this year’s WSMF is Inovation 2012. Visit WPS’s website by clicking here to learn more!
Roseland / Beech Grove
Nelson County, Virginia
A beautiful Saturday for most of the Blue Ridge Oyster Festival held on the grounds at Devils Backbone Brewing this past weekend. Though it was all about the oysters, there was music, wine, and, of course, beer! The event partially benefitted The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Big Brothers & Big Sisters of The Central Blue Ridge.
Wintergreen Mountain
Nelson County, Virginia
As Tommy’s Weather mentioned Sunday in the forecast, snow might make an appearance in Nelson County overnight Sunday into Monday morning. It did! And as of this post it’s still coming down up there. NCL Mountain Photographer Paul Purpura sent us the first shot around 9AM, then NCL Writer/Photographer Marcie Gates followed up with more pictures from the Devils Knob area over at Wintergreen Real Estate’s Discovery Ridge.
As of this post around 11:30 AM Monday, no travel problems had been reported.
Tommy says light to moderate snow will continue to fall in the mountains of Nelson throughout the afternoon. Additional accumulations of 1-3 inches are possible in elevations above 2500 feet.
See more of Paul’s pics he took later in the day by clicking here in this updated post.
Nellysford / Stoney Creek
Nelson County, VA
In just under four years Wintergreen Fire Department has done the unthinkable. They have paid off their new $760,000 ladder truck just short of 4 years. During a brief ceremony, where NCL Publisher Tommy Stafford was emcee, WFD Chief Curtis Sheets torched the note after passing off the final $50,000 payment to Nelson BOS of Connie Brennan. Nelson County loaned the department a portion of money toward the purchase of the new fire truck. “This truck allows two major things which we couldn’t do before. First, we can get to steep roof pitches to ventilate fires and/or check for extensions. Second, we can quickly set the truck and use the remote controlled nozzle to lob water on a fire from the platform 100′ above us. With our limited manpower, this is huge,” said WFD Chief Sheets
Congrats WFD and thanks for a fantastic afternoon!
Greenfield
Nelson County, VA
A few days ago we told you about the ransom note we found here at NCL. It was about Nelly May’s disappearance. She’s the famous cow that is in front of the Nelson Farmers Market Coop in Nellysford. Wednesday we noticed posters like the one above going up in places across the area.
The poster asks anyone with information to contact Tim Hess of Wintergreen Real Estate. WREC owns the field where the market is held each season.
More when we know, as the saga unfolds!
