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Wintergreen : Christina Kline’s Photography on display at Nature Foundation

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Wintergreen Nature Foundation
Devils Knob Mountain @ Wintergreen, Virginia
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This is one happy crew! NCL photographer, and Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Manager at Wintergreen, Christina Kline on the left & Meridith Young, owner of Black Rock Gallery at Wintergreen laugh it up at Christina’s Photography reception this past weekend at The Wintergreen Nature Foundation.

As we’ve been telling you, Christina has some of her excellent work on display at TWNF. Money from the show benefits TWNF.

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Above some of the people dropping by for the reception check out Christina’s work!

Christina’s work will be on display for the reminder of this week if you didn’t get a chance to drop by and check it out Labor Day Weekend.

Wintergreen : International Wine Festival : Art’s & Craft’s Show

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Wintergreen Mountain, Virginia
Delfosse booth

If you like wine, then you were at the right place this Labor Day weekend at the International Wine Festival at Wintergreen Mountain. Wintergreen Performing Arts puts on the event each year. Folks explored wines from around the world including, Australia, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

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Here, Robert Cole and Angela Harris try out one of the countless wines at the festival.

Crowd at Festival
The festival is one of the most popular on the mountain bringing in lots of people to try out the vino!

Don’t forget to attend WPA’s Oktoberfest later this month too. It’s September 22nd!

In addition to the wine fest, folks on the mountain were treated to a huge arts and crafts show for the Labor Day weekend complete with live entertainment.

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Someone stops to check out one of the many booths at the event.

Jeff Decker Jazz Band
The Jeff Decker Jazz Band entertained people during the craft fair and wine festival.

Wintergreen : Colony Coffee opens in The Mountain Inn

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Colony Coffee @ Wintergreen Resort
Wintergreen Mountain, Virginia
Colony Coffee
Colony Coffee owners, Karen & Bill Proctor, pose for a quick shot in front of their new operation inside the Mountain Inn at Wintergreen Resort.

It’s official! Wintergreen Resort now has a full time coffee shop operating inside the Mountain Inn at the Gristmill. Bill & Karen Proctor, who also own property at Wintergreen opened the shop this past Labor Day Weekend.

That’s going to be nice this winter coming in off of the slopes!
Java!

Montebello – Community Market Day & Fire Dept demo turns into real thing

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Montebello Community Market Day & Air Evac for Wreck Victim
Montebello, Virginia
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Pegasus circles to land at accident scene Sunday in Montebello.

First let me say a big thank you to Paulette and Lee Albright for being our eyes and ears out in Montebello. They got some really nice pics for us this year the the 11th Annual Montebello Community Market Day. The extravaganza included a demonstration by Montebello Fire & Rescue, but this past Sunday it turned into the real thing when a wreck at Route 56 and the Fish Hatchery Road occurred. There was was a motorcycle accident about 1 hour after the market started. 2 people were transported by ambulance and one required a helicopter. In the photo above, Paulette snapped the shot just before they touched down. Monday evening she e-mailed to tell us all of the victims thankfully have been treated and released. Thanks to the Montebello Fire & Rescue for a great response!

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This year’s show had all kinds of arts & crafts.

FD Demo
Here’s the Montebello Fire & Rescue doing a demonstration, little did they know before starting they’d be springing into action for real that day!

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Here one of the FD crew radios on his walkie talkie.

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In spite of the wreck earlier, it turned out to be a great market Day with plenty to see.

Thanks again to Paulette for sending these our way!

Beech Grove : Wintergreen Winery holds annual Romp, Stomp, & Chomp with video

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Wintergreen Winery
Beech Grove / Wintergreen, Virginia
Stompers

Labor Day weekend signals many things, but it always means the annual Romp, Stomp, & Chomp event at Wintergreen Winery at the foot of Wintergreen Mountain. The weather was perfect,” says Tam Stone. She and husband Jeff have owned the winery for years just off of 664 headed up the mountain. “This is a chance for kids and adults to come out and have a great time, but don’t worry we don’t make wine with what’s stomped,” laughs Jeff.

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This requires a little cleaning afterwards!

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Grape feet!

Jeff Hose
Good thing Jeff is standing by with a hose!

stomp sign
This looks like way too much fun!

Video clip of the stomping!

Afton : Learning your family tree @ The Rockfish Valley Fire Department

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Rockfish Valley Fire Department
Afton, Virginia
crowd line

If youare, a Phillips, a Rittenhouse, Bryant, Turner, Wood, or even a D’Ambola (no not the Piney River D’Ambolas, or the ones at Schuyler, just kidding) then you were probably at their annual family reunion at the RVFD Sunday. We are no relation, none that we know of, but several folks insisted we had to see this annual event. We agree! We hear these names everyday, but never had the opportunity to meet many of them until this past weekend. Very neat.

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Above, Lousie Phillips Wade center, explains the family tree to Yvette on the left. On the far right is Dennis Phillips, son of Zack Phillips. Mrs Wade is the mother of Linda D’Ambola, yes that D’Ambola of Afton!

Phil Pie
Phil D’Ambola, husband of Linda D’Ambola, see above to connect the dots…just can’t seem to get away from the kitchen! Here he slices up a pie for the crowd.

Lina’s mother
Yes, that would be Mrs. Hazel Phillips, Lyna Watson’s mother. The Lyna Watson of Wintergreen hardware. Confused yet? Good thing they all had name tags on!

Labor Day : Monday Weather : Wintergreen, The BRP, & Nelson County, VA

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Monday Mostly sunny with afternoon highs in the low & mid 80’s valley – 70’s mountains. Overnight lows 60’s valley mid 50’s mountains.

Whenever severe weather or news breaks out we’ll have all of the latest watches, warnings, and news coverage affecting Nelson County, Wintergreen, and nearby counties.

Have a great, Monday – regular audiocast weather is back Tuesday!

Know your Nelson.COM
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Greenfield – VA State Police back on scene of fatal 151 accident

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Photography by Tommy Stafford
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Accident investigators return to the scene
Greenfield, Virginia 151 @ 635
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State troopers and members of VDOT assist in taking measurements.

If you’ve driven along Route 151 Sunday morning and early afternoon you have noticed lots of activity at the scene of last Thursday’s deadly accident at the intersection of Route 151 and Greenfield Road. This morning VA State Troopers were back on the scene taking measurements from last week’s accident. It is customary for investigation teams to first mark the pavement with spray paint in the resting position of the cars, then later come back after the scene is cleared to do more extensive measurements and investigations.

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Troopers look over the paint markings on the pavement from Thursday’s fatal crash.

Afton : NCL speaks to RVCC Seniors about Weather

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Photography by Yvette Stafford
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Rockfish Valley Community Center
Afton, Virginia
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Tommy speaking to RVCC Seniors last Thursday.

Last week we got the treat to speak to the RVCC Seniors about our NCL-Weathernet stations across Nelson County. As you know we put the network in place earlier this year up on the mountain at Devil’s Knob and in several valley locations. To be able to predict weather accurately, you have to be able to monitor it as well. I spoke to the seniors and told them about the varying effects here in the valley vs on the mountains. I had all kinds of fancy terms, but Yvette just calls the Rockfish Valley, the crock pot! We also talked about the new audiocast weather each morning here on the web.

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In my other life I did television weather on air. We looked at some of the old newsreels and talked about the way news reporting has changed.

We had a great time and really appreciate the seniors having us as their guest!
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Afton : SMOKIN’ BUTTS – yes, you heard us right

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Photography by Bo Holland of RVCC
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Smokin’ Butts @ RVCC
Afton, Virginia
Smokin Butts

So last Thursday morning I was asked to speak to the Rockfish Valley Community Center’s Seniors.. I was there to talk about Nelson County Life’s NCL-Weathernet stations across the county. And discuss why and how weather is different here in Nelson due to the mountains and valleys.

Yvette and I couldn’t stay for lunch, but I wish we could have. This grabbed our attention, and thankfully Bo Holland grabbed this picture for us!

Bet it was good!

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