February 7, 2012
ShareArrington/Colleen Nelson County, Virginia Back in December 2011 we told you about BRMC getting ready to open their newly constructed addition to the public. This past Tuesday years of planning and construction came to fruition as area dignitaries and the BRMC staff officially cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the new facility. NCL [...]
December 14, 2011
ShareArrington/Colleen Nelson County, VA After months and months of construction Blue Ridge Medical Center is mere days from opening its new facility to the public. We recently reported they were almost done and will open the new 28,600 square facility on Tuesday – December 20th 2011. An official grand opening for the new facility will [...]
October 20, 2011
ShareColleen 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 [...]
September 27, 2011
ShareColleen Nelson County, Virginia Thanks to some quick thinkers a car fire ended up being just a car fire and not something bigger. A vehicle caught on fire at Colleen Exxon Monday afternoon and quickly became a big inferno. Some bystanders pulled the vehicle away from the gas pumps limiting the chances of it spreading. [...]
April 29, 2011
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 [...]
October 7, 2010
ShareColleen Nelson County, Virginia Continuous live updates on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Updated 10:00 PM EDT Nelson EMS Coordinator, Ray Uttaro, reports that Route 29 S in Colleen at scene of semi accident will be totally reopened within 10-15 mins and traffic will be normally flowing. Crews putting finishing touches on cleanup then all [...]
January 24, 2010
ShareColleen / Tye River Nelson County, Virginia Updated 12:48 PM Nelson County Sheriff, David Brooks, says the search for a wanted man in the south end of the county has been called off early Sunday afternoon. “We’ve been looking for Jason Todd Cash, a white male in his mid 30′s who ran from one of [...]
December 9, 2009
ShareWashington, D.C. Congressman Tom Perriello today announced that the Blue Ridge Medical Center in Nelson County will receive a $5,000,000 grant to expand care throughout Central Virginia. The funding comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which Perriello supported. He joined Ms. Peggy Whitehead, Executive Director of Blue Ridge Medical Center, for the [...]
August 14, 2009
ShareArrington Nelson County, Virginia Just after noon Friday, Nelson lawmen along with agents from The Virginia Alcohol Beverage Commission and the Bedford County Sheriff’s Department raided the Little Texas convenience store near the county line on U.S. 29 South the far Southern end of the Nelson near the Amherst border. Nelson County Sheriff, David Brooks [...]
March 22, 2009
ShareArrington/Colleen Nelson County, Virginia So what does 40,000 pounds of white potatoes look like all in one place? Just take a look at these pictures our Ben Hernandez got shots of Saturday, and you will know. Just after daybreak the load was dropped on the parking lot of Nelson United Methodist Church as part of [...]