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Team Nelson Tough Mudder : Done! – Photos, Slide Show & Video!

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Team Nelson Tough Mudder : Done! – Photos, Slide Show & Video!
Photo By Hayley Osborne : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Tough Mudder Team Nelson member Jack Muehler trudges through the Firewalker obstacle on his way to the finish line at Tough Mudder this past Saturday (October 22, 2011) at Wintergreen Resort.

Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, Virginia
After 9 grueling miles and 27 unforgiving obstacles that started out on a 33° morning in the mountains at Wintergreen Resort, Team Nelson (TN) conquered! This past Saturday morning TN was in the first flight to hit the course at 8AM sharp. To say we are proud wouldn’t even touch describing it. The team consisted of the absolute most fit, to novices that had never competed in any endurance event. In the end, they helped each other and conquered!

NCL Publisher, Yvette Stafford, got the idea early in 2011 to form a team representing Nelson County. She immediately had 22 people signed up by the time Tough Mudder had sold out the Saturday event. NCL solicited sponsors who made it possible to outfit the team with their own branded t-shirts for the event. Others outside of Team Nelson wanted shirts too. We ordered more! The extra money from those shirts will go to Wintergreen Adaptive Sports. They are big supporters of Wounded Warriors which is what Tough Mudder National supports as well.

We want to thank the Team Nelson sponsors that helped make this happen, you are awesome for helping the team to victory!

Blue Mountain Brewery
Rice & Rice Dentistry
Zestivities
Nelson Physical Therapy & Wellness Center
Anytime Fitness of Lovingston
Mountain Area Realty

Thank these people. Do business with them. We can’t say enough about how great they have been!

We have lots of photos and video from Team Nelson’s trek across the course. So let’s get to it. Scroll down to see it all!

We have a ton of pictures from the course! NCL Photographers Paul Purpura and Hayley Osborne were all over the mountain Saturday grabbing photos. You can view them by clicking on our Facebook image album above. Enjoy!


Paul put together a fantastic slide show of Team Nelson and Tough Mudder. Click the player above to view.

But wait! There’s more! Yvette outfitted herself with a GoPro camera that straps to your chest and videoed the most intimidating obstacles along the way. Nelson 151 sponsored the video segments which are just totally awesome. Our little disclaimer warning, if you are easily offended by naughty language, you may want to pass. They aren’t terrible, but you might hear a bad word here and there. Understandable when jumping into ice water on a 33° morning! Wow!

To see all of the up close and personal videos Yvette shot while on the course at Tough Mudder, just click on the image above from our Nelson County Life Channel over at YouTube!

Thanks to everyone that participated, helped out, and just came to watch and support Team Nelson.

See you there next year!!

Team Nelson Rocked At Tough Mudder – Wintergreen, Virgina

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Photo By Hayley Osborne : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Most of the Team Nelson members at Wintergreen Resort very early Saturday morning just before starting Tough Mudder.

Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, Virginia
Team Nelson did it! They completed a grueling 9 mile course with 27 obstacles at Wintergreen Resort Saturday morning. Temps were hovering around 35° as the team took off across the resort. This is a very preliminary post with many more pictures to follow later this weekend. But we wanted to let you know they made it!

NCL Photographers Paul Purpura and Hayley Osborne were along for the event. We have tons of pictures to go through and Yvette is working on her Go-Pro video that was shot as she took part in Tough Mudder.

Much more soon!

Way to go Team Nelson!

Tough Mudder Eve : Wintergreen, Virginia

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Photo By NCL Mountain Photographer Paul Purpura : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : This is the sign most Tough Mudders will want to see after a long course Saturday and Sunday at Wintergreen Resort. An estimated 14,000+ participants will descend on Nelson County, Virginia for the two day competition.

Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, Virginia
It’s here. Tough Mudder, Virginia is happening this weekend at Wintergreen Resort. Yes, you read the caption in Paul’s picture above correctly. 14,000 plus participants will compete in the two day event that runs through Sunday afternoon. That figure does not include friends, spectators, etc.

Photo By Tommy Stafford : Paul Koschara, owner of Wintergreen Grocers in Nellysford, takes a gander at the camera after he and his staff finish a sign welcoming the 14,000 plus Tough Mudders to Nelson County this weekend.
Photo By Tommy Stafford : Down in the Rockfish Valley at the foot of the mountain huge parking areas have been established for thousands of cars. This is one of the lots at Wintergreen Winery where mudders will park and be shuttled to the top.

NCL Publisher, Yvette Stafford, coordinated Team Nelson, a group of 22 participants that will be competing in the event st 8AM Saturday morning. Most of them have been training for the past year or longer for the event.

Our October 2011 cover story on Team Nelson’s training for Tough Mudder. Click on the above image to read the story.

Photo By Paul Purpura : One of the most feared and craziest obstacles on the TM course is the electroshock. Yep, it's on the course at Wintergreen near the end.

NCL forecaster, Tommy Stafford says the weather be nice and generally sunny for both days, but the mornings up at Wintergreen will start off cold. “We’re talking temperatures between 32-36° around sunrise on Saturday and maybe even a bit colder on Sunday morning. The one saving grace might be some partly cloudy skies moving through that would keep temps up a few degrees. Regardless, it will be cold until later in the morning when sunshine heats things up into the lower 50’s with a SW wind of 5-15 MPH in the mountains.”

We will be updating the event and Team Nelson’s progress on our Facebook page here, and also via our Twitter feed. That’s the way to see the absolute latest updates. Of course we’ll have a huge update later in the day here on NCL. Photographers Paul Purpura and Hayley Osborne are covering it all!

Go Team Nelson!

Nelson County Deputy Arrested & Fired : Remains In Jail : Updated – 1.5.12

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Mug Shot Courtesy of CBS-19 Charlottesville : Joshua Lee Hatter, a former deputy with the Nelson County Sheriff's Dept remains in jail under a 25,000 dollar bond as of Friday afternoon.

Lovingston
Nelson County, Virginia
Updated 1.5.12 @ 5:40 PM

Nelson County Sheriff David Brooks confirms to NCL that Joshua Lee Hatter, once a deputy with the Nelson County Sheriff’s Department, was sentenced in a Nelson Domestic Court Thursday morning on misdemeanor charges and was bound over to the grand jury on two other felony charges. The court action stems from an October 2011 incident where authorities say he was involved in a domestic dispute. “It’s important that the people of Nelson County know we take an officer breaking the law very seriously. It’s a matter of trust to the public when a person in a position of authority is involved,” Sheriff Brooks said. Brooks immediately fired Hatter in October after formal charges were filed.

In court Thursday Hatter was found guilty on two misdemeanor charges:

-Misdemeanor assault & battery on a family member
-Misdemeanor destroying a telephone line

He was sentenced to 120 days on each count, suspended to 60 days each, for a total sentence of 120 days in jail.

Two additional felony charges remain in place:

-Felony discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling
-Felony abduction

Hatter was bound over to the grand jury on those charges for review and probable indictment later this month.

A remaining felony charge of Felony property damage over $1000.00 was dismissed when the court determined the amount of damage did not meet the 1000.00 benchmark.

Former deputy Hatter has been, and continues to be, in jail custody since his October arrest.

Original Story from 10.21.2011
A former Nelson deputy charged with enforcing the law is now on the other side facing charges. 30 year old Joshua Lee Hatter of Lovingston has been charged with a variety of crimes involving what authorities describe as a domestic dispute.

Hatter has been charged with:

-Felony property damage over $1000.00
-Felony discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling
-Felony abduction
-Misdemeanor assault & battery on a family member
-Misdemeanor destroying a telephone line

“He was fired after the incident this week and remains in jail as of early Friday afternoon. We have a duty to protect our community even if it’s one of our own, we took the necessary steps in conjunction with the Commonwealth Attorney’s office to make sure the case was properly investigated. Especially since we know the even greater attention would be given since this was an officer of the law,” Nelson Sheriff David Brooks said by telephone Friday afternoon.

Once Hatter makes bond, he will have several other restrictions placed on him in addition to the secured bond. He must wear a GPS tracking ankle bracelet, have no contact with the victim, no alcohol, and not enter Nelson County pending outcome of the case or changes by a judicial order.

This makes the third arrest involving a Virginia police officer recently including one in Danville and another in Bedford County.

More coverage here from CBS-19 in Charlottesville.

Blue Mountain Brewery Breaks Ground On Production Facility In Colleen

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Blue Mountain Brewery Breaks Ground On Production Facility In Colleen
Photos By Tommy Stafford : ©www.nelsoncountylife.com : (L to R) Mandi Smack, Taylor Smack, and Matt Nucci (Blue Mountain Brewery co-owners and founders) are joined by dignitaries Thursday afternoon at the groundbreaking of their new Blue Mountain Barrel House production facility in Colleen, VA

Colleen
Nelson County, Virginia
Blue Mountain Brewery, Nelson’s first microbrewery established back in October of 2007 is expanding once again. This is just weeks after opening their new addition to the existing brewery and restaurant in Afton. It roughly doubled in size with the expansion.

Blue Mountain Barrel House and Organic Brewery is a 10,000 square foot production-only facility for the 10 lines of Blue Mountain beer that will be kegged or bottled in 750ml corked bottles and undergo 100% natural refermentation. These beers will be USDA certified organic and will tend toward the more “specialty” end of Blue Mountain’s beer production spectrum. Beers brewed will include the popular Dark Hollow Bourbon-Barrel Aged Stout and Mandolin, but will also introduce new styles such as an imperial pilsner and a barrel-aged Belgian-inspired ale.

Stephen Versen. Project Manager - Agribusiness Development Services with Virginia's Department of Agriculture addresses the crowd at Thursday's groundbreaking in Colleen's industrial park near Central Virginia Electric.
Taylor and Mandi's oldest son, Hayden, gives the new project two thumbs up!

The second project, slated for the future, will be a large production brewery of 40-60,000 square feet will focus on the production of the current bottled beer lines, including Full Nelson and Classic Lager. This brewery will help service the large amount of unfulfilled orders from the current beer wholesaler, as well as begin expansion to out-of-state markets. The eventual capacity for this brewery will be 50,000 barrels annually.

Three generations of the Smack family doing a ceremonial pitch of the dirt to signify the start of construction.

“I had talked with Central Virginia Electric Cooperative [the Colleen Business Park land owner] about locating a brewery here as far back as 2004. The site never left my mind as very ideal, and we’re thrilled to finally be making a production brewery in Colleen a reality,” said Taylor.

Taylor also says baring any potential weather delays they will be brewing beer at the new facility in about 4 months from Thursday’s October groundbreaking.

Congrats BMB!

Blue Mountain Brewery on the web: http://www.bluemountainbrewery.com/

Blue Toad Makes It Officially Official :-)

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Blue Toad Makes It Officially Official :-)
Photo By Tommy Stafford : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Susan Lineberry (left) with the Nelson County Chamber of Commerce, joins Nelson Chamber President Jerry Gress (center) at the official ribbon cutting this past weekend with Todd Rath owner of Blue Toad.

Afton
Nelson County, Virginia
It’s officially official now. Though The Blue Toad had been open now since mid-summer, the official grand opening and ribbon cutting took place this past weekend at Todd Rath’s pub and restaurant in Afton, Virginia.

Though outside pickup window has gone away until warmer days return, the inside pub is ready and welcoming!

Skyline Shootout 2011

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Photo By Tommy Stafford : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Mid week may have been soggy but earlier in the week the weather was perfect for the annual Skyline Shootout held on the golf course at Stoney Creek in Nellysford.

Nellysford
Nelson County, Virginia
The weather was perfect earlier in the week for the annual Skyline Shootout held at the Stoney Creek Golf Course. We first told you about the fountain that was put in place back in 2008. That’s what inspired the annual tournament. Dedication ceremony here.

Golfers on one side of the fountain pond watch as golfers on the other side try to make their shot!

Not to worry, golfing weather will return by the weekend!

More Fall Beauty In & Near Nelson

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Photo By Ann Strober : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Ann Strober perfectly nailed the fall beauty that's showing up in and near Nelson County. This is the Ravens Roost outcrop along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Blue Ridge Parkway
Nelson / Augusta County, Virginia
In the just because we like it column, here’s a beauty of a shot Ann Strober grabbed up on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Ravens Roost (elevation 3200′) in the past day or so. Look at the tremendous fall colors and the beautiful shot!

Fall colors in the higher elevations are at peak now!

Get out and see them soon and thank you Ann for a gorgeous shot!

Wild Wolf Gets Ready To Brew At New Nellysford Location

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Photo Courtesy of Mary Wolf : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Danny Wolf (brewmaster) sorts through parts to hook up to fermenters at Wild Wolf's newly built brewery in Nellysford.

Nellysford
Nelson County, Virginia
Within a matter of days Wild Wolf Brewing Company will begin brewing beer at their new and permanent home in Nellysford, Virginia. This past week Danny Wolf, the brewmaster, at WW was busy getting everything ready to start production.

New fermenters just put in place at Wild Wolf's new home in Nellysford.

Wild Wolf has been on an aggressive fast track construction and remodeling project at the old Rockfish Nursery location on Route 151.

Our September story on Wild Wolf’s new construction. Click on the image above to read.

The restaurant portion of the new operation is nearing completion with an anticipated opening date of 11.11.11.

The new brewhouse getting ready to make beer at Wild Wolf's new location.

We can’t wait!

More on the history of the building location long before it was purchased by Wild Wolf – by clicking here.

Preps For Tough Mudder Virginia Continue Here In Nelson

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Preps For Tough Mudder Virginia Continue Here In Nelson
Photo Courtesy Of Heidi Crandall : ©2011 www.nelsoncountylife.com : VDOT signs are already going up along Route 151 near Route 664 in preparation for Tough Mudder at Wintergreen Resort this weekend. This one was on 151 heading north from Brents Gap.

Roseland/Wintergreen
Nelson County, Virginia
Just 2-3 days remain before Tough Mudder, VA gets underway on Saturday at Wintergreen Resort. Traffic signs started going up Tuesday in the vicinity of Route 664. That’s the state highway heading up to Wintergreen. Tough Mudder has leased pieces of property at the base of the mountain to accomodate the large numbers of cars that will be parked. Drivers and riders will be shuttled up the mountain in buses that have been rented. “Traffic coordinators have been on our site most of Tuesday getting things ready for parking this weekend,” said Jeff Stone, owner of Wintergreen Winery. Many cars will be parked in an open field in front of the winery in addition to other leased locations nearby.

This weekend anyone will be allowed on 664 as the event is ongoing, but only properly permitted vehicles will be allowed past the Wintergreen gatehouse. Wintergreen property owners, permitted guests, and properly permitted press vehicles will be allowed up. Certificated early participants in Tough Mudder will be allowed up through roughly mid-morning, then later all others will be required to park at the bottom and ride a shuttle bus.

Additional manpower from the Virginia State Police will be on hand in that part of Nelson to assist with the expected huge increase in traffic.

More details daily!

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