ShareAfton Nelson County, Virginia You know summer is just around the corner when Veritas starts its annual Starry Nights! They kicked off the 2011 season this past Saturday with The Hackensaw Boys. The opener was Jim Waive and The Young Divorcees Both bands have become a yearly favorite start the season. Next month on July [...]
ShareAfton Nelson County, Virginia For nine years in a row Bandfair has been held at Cardinal Point Vineyard & Winery. We’ve sponsored and covered several of them in the past. It’s one of the larger fundraisers for North Branch School. The 2011 Bandfair9 was a total success with perfectly cooperating weather. NCL Contributing writer, Marcie [...]
ShareAfton Nelson County, Virginia James Madison University staff and students were back at North Branch School again this past week to put up an anemometer tower. We first told you about the beginning phases of a study back in November of 2010. That was the first step of a process that might eventually allow NBS [...]
ShareGreenfield / Afton Nelson County, Virginia About a week and a half ago NCL’s orange tabby cat, Angelo, didn’t show that Tuesday morning May 26th, for his breakfast. Not totally unusual as Angelo is an indoor / outdoor cat with his own mind. He’s left before maybe for a day, but always returned. This time [...]
ShareAfton Nelson County, Virginia Just 6 in the country were picked. Audrey Wood of Waynesboro, a student at North Branch School, was one of them. To boot, NBS will be getting a $10,000 Reading Promotion Grant from Target Stores. Audrey picked her school to receive the grant money. The competition was part of Letters About [...]
ShareAfton Nelson County, VA A cool cloudy day with drizzle on occasion didn’t stop people from heading on over to the annual Pre-Mother’s Day Plant Sale this past Sunday (5.1.11) in Ruritian Park next the RVCC. It was the place to pick up all kinds of neat plants, just in time for spring and summer! [...]
ShareAfton, Nelson County, Virginia Blue Mountain Brewery has selected the Colleen Business Park in Nelson County as the home for its two new production brewery projects. During the year-long site selection process, the Colleen location emerged as the best fit for the projects, allowing Blue Mountain to expand its brewery operations in Nelson County. Blue [...]
Share Afton Nelson County, Virginia Bring a pair of good yard scissors and help Blue Mountain Brewery string, trim and train their Cascade and Centennial hops! On Tuesday, April 26th · 3:00pm – 6:00pm Give them an hour of good work and they’ll hook you up with a “hop-hand” sandwich–carnivore or vegetarian style–and a side. [...]
ShareNelson County, Virginia One day after 5 to 7 inches of rain poured off of the mountains in Western Nelson County, some roads either remain closed or damaged from intense flooding that hit Saturday afternoon. Nelson County Life followed the story minute by minute in pictures as it unfolded in this original breaking post. Tommy [...]
ShareIntense rains that began Saturday morning ad rescue crews busy in the afternoon as homeowners and motorists are coped with rising flash flood waters. The intersection of Routes 250 and 151 in the Albemarle County side of Afton was the scene of a Rockfish Valley Fire Dept. rescue of a family trapped in their house [...]
