Mark your calendars! The 2016 Riverfest and the Year of the Osprey is coming to Waynesboro on Saturday, April 30. Programs and activities will start at 10 AM and continue throughout the day. This free annual event takes place riverside at Constitution Park South in Waynesboro, VA. Activities include canoe rides, Reptile World shows, Stream Safari, presentations by the Wildlife Center of … [Read more...]
A Trip To Mountain Lake
Sherman Shifflett If you have never been to Mountain Lake Lodge (where "Dirty Dancing" was filmed), it is worth a visit. Ava and I spent last Thursday night there. Mountain Lake is seven miles up a mountain off Rt. 460, west of Blacksburg, in Giles County. The lake sprung a leak and doesn't have much water in it now. I understand that it drains about every hundred years or so. … [Read more...]
Retail Vacancy Report
By Jay Reeves Retail space is limited in Charlottesville, reports Jay Reeves, a commercial Realtor with Bob Kahn Realty & Investment. The Barracks Road vacancies dropped from 7 available stores to 1 between July 2015 and Jan. 2016. Far below the national average of 9.10%, Charlottesville's rate of vacancies is a healthy and low 3.31%. Five of the six retail areas … [Read more...]
Easter Memories
Boomers remember Easter Sunday as one of the special days of the year, ranking right up there with Christmas, Thanksgiving and your birthday. Today, not so much. On Easters past, nearly everyone went to church, dressed to the nines in their Sunday best. The girls wore new Easter dresses with crispy crinolines, the boys sported new suits and ties (clip-on, of course) and all the moms wore … [Read more...]
Saugeye Caught at Lake Anna
On March 12, Dyllon Kincer brought what looked to be a nice walleye to the Anna Point Marina scales. But it wasn’t a walleye. It was a saugeye. A saugeye is a hatchery-produced hybrid - a cross between a female walleye and a male sauger, and they are well suited for reservoirs such as Anna. Although saugeye are a cross between walleye and sauger, they often behave differently than walleye, … [Read more...]
Togs In The Bay
By Dr. Ken Neill, III Water temperatures have reached into the 50s inside the bay and she is waking up. Crabs are active and now that the potting season is open, getting crabs for tautog bait will be much easier. Tog have been caught on the ocean wrecks all winter long but have been rather dormant in the bay. That has now changed with the warmer waters and structures inside the bay … [Read more...]
Wooden Sun Spring Specials
A note from Wooden Sun – Charlottesville’s source for wood stoves, gas logs and great service. Spring is here, and we would like to extend an exclusive offer for chimney cleaning and gas maintenance! We're offering an 18% off-season discount on chimney cleaning and gas maintenance work from April 1st-August 31st. Our summer discounted price for chimney sweeps and inspections for one … [Read more...]
Coming Attractions
March 19: Appalachian Highlands Ruffed Grouse Society Banquet, Bristol March 19: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Shenandoah Valley March 19-20: Rappahannock River Waterfowl Show, Whitestone March 29-April 3: Mason Dixon Outdoor Writers Asso. Annual Conference, Hagerstown MD April 2: Trout Heritage Day, Graves Mountain Lodge, Madison Chapter Banquet, Augusta Expo April 2-3: … [Read more...]
VSGA VIP Cards
We golfers are among the greatest of procrastinators. Did you get us tee times yet? No, I forgot. But I will. Did you order your VSGA VIP card yet? No, not yet, but I will. For heavens sakes, the Master is right around the corner. Get your VSGA membership and start saving money right now on greens fees. In fact, the best deal in all of golf is a VSGA VIP Card. For an … [Read more...]
More Gardening Tips
Sherman Shifflett Crows can be devastating in a newly planted garden of corn. The best suggestion I have is to keep them out is to place a string 3-4" over the cornrows when you plant, using stakes at each end of the rows. Crows (grackles too) will not stick their heads under the string. I've never seen squirrels pull up corn and I have plenty of the "tree rats" around. One thing I … [Read more...]
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