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Nelson Crews Work Another Hunting Accident Thursday Evening

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Map via google.com : The general area where another hunter was accidentally shot Thursday evening in Nelson County, Virginia.

Lovingston
Nelson County, Virginia
NCL can confirm that Nelson rescue and law enforcement have been working another accident involving a hunter that was accidentally shot with a rifle. “We received a call to assist Nelson Rescue squads with the rescue off of Davis Creek Road north of Lovingston,” Wintergreen Fire & Rescue Chief, Curtis Sheets told us after NCL called to confirm the incident.

“The person that was shot is from Virginia Beach, VA. His friend from South Boston shot him accidentally when he moved in the line of fire,” Nelson County Sheriff, David Brooks, tells NCL late Thursday evening. The accident occurred on Perry Lane just off of Davis Creek.

The hunter was shot in the upper leg / groin area and was flown out by Pegasus helicopter to UVa.

This is the second hunting accident in Nelson County within the past month. 7 year old Connor Craig of Shipman tragically died after being shot in a Thanksgiving Weekend hunting accident.

The VA Department of Inland Game & Fisheries will followup the investigation.

Build a Basic Budget

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Event Details:

We’ll help you understand the steps involved in developing a spending plan and how to identify spending leaks. We’ll also assist you in setting short- and long-term financial goals, explain how to audit your progress and revise your goals as needed. Seating is limited! Register at uvacreditunion.org or call 434-964-2001 today!

Event Date

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Event Time

From: 19:00 – To: 20:30

Event Venue

Nelson Community Center, 8521 Thomas Nelson Highway, Lovingston

Event Contact Details:

434-964-2001

Website:

http://uvacreditunion.org

Event TimeZone

US/Eastern

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Santa Drops In At Stoney Creek. In Style!

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Photos By Tommy Stafford : ©2010 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Santa Claus arrived in style Wednesday night (12.8.10) at Stoney Creek Bar and Grill. The Wintergreen Fire Department gave him a lift!

Nellysford / Stoney Creek
Nelson County, Virginia
It was a night of caroling, hot chocolate, tree lighting, and of course Santa! He hitched a ride to Stoney Creek Bar & Grill for their annual tree lighting via a fire truck from Wintergreen Fire & Rescue. “The reindeer have to rest right now, we can’t zap their energy before Christmas Eve. That’s our longest working night of the year,” Santa told us as he was preparing to have kids visit and tell him what they wanted for Christmas.

Jackson Winter (in Santa hat) along with his dad, Colin, his mom, Amy, and sister Anna, give Santa a wish list for this Christmas.
The night began with Christmas carols in front of Stoney Creek Bar and Grill, just before the tree lighting.
Santa gets a helping hand down from the fire truck after arriving at Stoney Creek this past Wednesday night. (12.8.10)
Denise Moldenhauer of Roseland gets her kids ready to see Santa!
After visiting all of the kids in Nelson, Santa went inside where it was warm and a huge buffet awaited him.
Frank Ott of Stoney Creek gets caught in the middle as Santa gives out hugs Wednesday night.

“I have lots to do between now and Christmas Eve, so I will be heading back to the North Pole between my visits here with kids,” Santa told us Wednesday night.

See you later this month Santa!

Wintergreen Resort Opens For Ski Season This Friday (12.10.10)

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Photos Courtesy of Wintergreen Resort : ©2010 www.nelsoncountylife.com : For the first time in the resort's history, The Highlands, should be up and running on opening day of the season, this Friday - December 10th.

Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, Virginia
Ready. Set. Go!! This Friday (12.10.10) Wintergreen Resort will open for the 2010-2011 ski season. Crews have been working around the clock and temperatures haven’t been above freezing all week in the mountains of Nelson County. Perfect for massive snow making at Wintergreen, along with a couple of inches of natural snow last weekend!

A look along Dobie this past Wednesday (12.8.10) at Wintergreen Resort
Groomers have been working the slopes at Wintergreen to have them ready for Friday's opening day.
Crews move massive amounts of snow on the tubing lanes to have them ready for Friday.

Looks like this season is off to a fantastic start already!

To keep up with the latest conditions on the slopes, click here for the resort’s slope report.

Christmas Cookies And Decorating At Devils Backbone

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Photos Courtesy of DBBC : Kids had a great time Tuesday night at Devils Backbone in Roseland decorating for Christmas including the best part, cookies!

Roseland
Nelson County, Virginia
With the cold nights in the air, no doubt Christmas is on the way! Kids and adults had fun this past Tuesday night (12.7.10) decorating for Christmas at Devils Backbone Brewing in Roseland / Beech Grove.

After decorating sugar cookies, making paper snowflakes, snowmen, and ornaments, youngsters got to the best part, eating them!
The evening topped off with hot chocolate and smores over the fire at Devils Backbone.

Lots more Christmas events are planned for this month at DBBC including Bouncing For Hams, a fundraiser for the The Nelson County Food Pantry, on December 14th.

Santa Claus At Stoney Creek Tonight – All Of Nelson County Invited to Attend!

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Santa Claus will arrive in style tonight on a fire truck in front of Stoney Creek Bar & Grill.

Nellysford / Stoney Creek
Nelson County, Virginia
Santa will arrive in style tonight (12.8.10) in front of Stoney Creek Bar & Grill in Nellysford! A special tree lighting ceremony complete with Christmas carols begins around 5:45 PM with Santa’s arrival sometime around 6:15PM. “We want everyone in Nelson County to come over, not just folks in Wintergreen, this is for everyone,” Annie Rose tells us. She’s helping coordinate the event.

So put on a coat, grab the kids and come on out tonight to see Santa and get in the Christmas spirit!

See you there!

Nelson County High Drama Team Wins State 2nd Year In A Row!!

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Photo By Taylor Ashley : ©2010 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Members of The NCHS Drama Team pause for a picture with their state trophy during a celebration at IHOP in Charlottesville. Tuesday night 12.7.10

Charlottesville
Albemarle County, Virginia
They’ve done it again! The Nelson County High School Drama Team won the state championship for the second year in a row Tuesday night in Charlottesville. “I’m ecstatic! They gave a brilliant performance. It’s just fantastic,” Diana Driver, the team’s director tells NCL after the win. The Nelson team won against 8 other schools that were competing for the state title in the tournaments being held at Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center in Charlottesville. “I think it was their perseverance and their commitment that got them the win. They practiced weekends, night, holidays, you name it,” Diana continued.

The team won against the other schools for their play, The History Of Tom Jones – based on Novel by Henry Fielding. Ironically 3 of the drama team students were also team members of the NCHS Lady Govs Volleyball Team that recently won the state championship as well. Tuesday night, four members of the Nelson Drama Team also won 4 of the 8 awards handed out to other schools.

Diana tells us she wasn’t sure about a win two years in a row. “I wasn’t back until October 11th. We had Peter Coy of The Hamner Theater come in and help out, and we did it!”

The biggest compliment of Tuesday’s performance came when another school’s director made a very flattering remark to Diana. “When are you going to retire, so we can win?”

We hope no time soon Diana!

Congrats to everyone on the drama team. Way To Go!

Blue Mountain Tuesday Tasting – Bourbon Aged Beers

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Event Details:

Tonight at 6:00PM we will release bottle and draft Dark Hollow batch #11! Join us to taste the differences between the two versions along with vintage Dark Hollow and, for the first 15 participants to arrive, tasting of the legendary Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Stout, the original bourbon-barrel-aged beer in the world. And for the first 10 participants to arrive for the tasting, we will be opening one 12-oz bottle of “Heartwood Symposium” a beer created by the Illinois Craft Brewers’ Guild in 2010 for the occasion of the 2010 Craft Brewers’ Conference and World Beer Cup and given out only to participants of the conference. You will never see this beer anywhere again. It was brewed at Goose Island in Chicago by 4 teams composed each of 3-4 different brewers from the different companies. Included in the groups were brewing greats from the likes of Three Floyds, Piece, Flossmoor Station, and Revolution Brewing. Quoting from the bottle: “This ale celebrates the midwest as the birthplace of bourbon-barrel aged American Craft beer. Brewers from 15 Illinois breweries formed four teams, each creating a recipe and brewing it at Goose Island Beer Co.: Imperial Stout, Imperial IPA, Scotch style Wee Heavy and a Barley Wine style Ale. All were aged separately in Bourbon barrels. The resulting Symposium Ale is our taste-tested blend of all four batches.” Awesome! Brewer/co-owner Matt Nucci will be leading the tasting…I don’t think I need to add “be prompt” for attending this one!

Event Date

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Event Time

From: 18:00 – To: 19:00

Event Venue

9519 Critzers Shop Rd. Afton, VA

Event Contact Details:

540-456-8020

Website:

http://bluemountainbrewery.com

Event TimeZone

US/Eastern

Event by:

Mandi Smack

The Blue Ridge Parkway Road Report Is Back For Winter

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©2010 www.nelsoncountylife.com : A view looking south on the Blue Ridge Parkway at the intersection of Route 664 at Reed's Gap in Feburary 2010.

Blue Ridge Parkway
Nelson County, Virginia
Who could ever forget the winter of 2009-2010? We sure haven’t! Regardless of the winter in the valley, it can be brutal up in the mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway. So just how do you know if it’s open between the gates or not? You check our our BRP Road Report.

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Give it a try! Just click the play button above to listen to the report courtesy of The National Park Service.

The BRP Road Report is back for the 2010-2011 winter season. it gives you the status of the parkway closings in Nelson and all of the Virginia sections of the VRP.

So be sure to check out the BRP Road Report before heading up there only to find out you may go nowhere!

Travel safely this winter!

Wintergreen Performing Arts : Your Table Is Ready

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Photos By Tommy Stafford : ©2010 www.nelsoncountylife.com : Folks dropped by this past weekend at the Tuckahoe Clubhouse in Stoney Creek for a display of festive table tops presented by Wintergreen Performing Arts.

Nellysford
Nelson County, Virginia
Some of the most beautifully crafted table displays were on hand this past weekend at The Tuckahoe Clubhouse in Stoney Creek. Your Table Is Ready, was part of a display of festive table tops for all occasions. The event was put on to benefit Wintergreen Performing Arts.

In addition to the table displays, lots of crafters were on hand for holiday shoppers.
A European Christmas was designed by Marylou Thibodeau on display this past weekend as part of Your Table Is Ready.
Nature photographer, Marshall Faintich, was on hand signing copies of his recently released book A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Wintergreen
The designs of the table displays varied from the very sophisticated to the comfortable and casual.

Plans are already underway for Wintergreen Performing Arts’ 2011 Summer Music Festival. Learn more here.

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