July 4, 2008Fire near Buchanan grows to more than 500 acres12:47 a.m, Saturday, July 5: The fire near Buchanan has now grown to more than 500 acres. For details, click here. Do you have photos of the fire? You can share them at news@botetourtview.com We've had previous posts about the fire Friday afternoon and Friday morning. Summer photos: Grandma's pool You'll recall we recently asked folks to send in their summer photos. Didn't matter whether it was a big European vacation, or just a backyard barbecue. Well, the Spanglers have sent us this photo. Here's Josie, Brooke and Chase Spangler, at their grandmother's pool near Buchanan. For this contribution, we've put the Spanglers on the map -- our Botetourt Summer '08 map, that is. You'll already see we have a dot for the Botetourt Outlaws basketball team, who, as we told you in a post on July 2, are headed to a tournament in Orlando, Florida next week. So do you have summer photos to share? You can send them to us at: news@botetourtview.com just like the Spanglers did.
Fire near Buchanan grows to more than 100 acres2:06 p.m., Friday, July 4: The fire in the mountains near Buchanan has grown to about 100 acres, according to the the U.S. Forest Service. Because of the fire, Virginia 43 is blocked to through traffic between the Buchanan town limits and the Bedford County line, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. Local traffic is still permitted. For more details, click here. We had a previous post about the fire (with a photo) earlier this morning. Do you have photos of the fire? You can send them to us at news@botetourtview.com We'll provide regular updates on this site. You may recall our coverage a few weeks ago of the fire on Caldwell Mountain west of Fincastle. Happy "4" of July Traffic on I-81 was light today for the holiday and yes, gas prices in Botetourt have jumped above $4 per gallon as evidenced at Brughs Mill Exxon near Troutville. Nichols has had Bicentennial license plate since 1976 On this July 4th Rachel Nichols proudly displays the license plate on her car-a 1976 bicentennial tag with the seal of Virginia. She got it in the fall of 1976 and put it on her brand new 1977 Ford T-Bird purchased from Webby Booze at Buchanan Motor Company. The plate has been on her successive five cars since. Though the plate is crackled, she has yet to give in to letters from the DMV asking her if she is ready to trade the tag for a new model. She may have some kind of record-- the tag has been on one of her vehicles for 32 years!
Fire burns near Buchanan on Yellow Stone Mountain On July 3 around 1:30 p.m. a fire was first noticed on Yellow Stone Mountain just north of Buchanan along Virginia 43. As of this morning, the U.S. Forest Service continues to monitor the fire with assistance from the Buchanan Volunteer Fire Department and the Virginia Department of Forestry out of Pulaski. The fire runs just below the Blue Ridge Parkway. At dark last night a fire department spokesman said the fire was waste high in the underbrush and had consumed at least fifty acres. July 3, 2008An online guide to the July 4 print edition of The Botetourt ViewHappy 4th of July weekend. Those of you who are Roanoke Times subscribers will find your Botetourt View in its usual place at the usual time (not in the rosebushes, we trust.) Those of you who aren’t subscribers -- and who get it by mail -- well, there’s no mail on Friday, so you likely won’t get yours until Saturday. A good reason to subscribe, eh? Either way, we reach more than 90 percent of the households in Botetourt County. (How do we do that? See below. And if you’d like to find out how you can advertise in The Botetourt View to reach all those households, click here for retail advertising or click here for classifieds.) Whenever you get your print edition, you’ll see a couple things. One, send us photos from whatever you’re doing on the 4th of July. And if you’re going to the Salem Fair this weekend, send us photos of you at your favorite carnival attraction! (By the way, we have video of the elephants.) Or, just send us photos of what you’re doing this summer -- or that weird-shaped eggplant you’re so proud of. Whatever you have to send us, we’re here at news@botetourtview.com And now, on to our . . . SPECIAL ONLINE EXTRAS * James River teacher to search for pulsars at West Virginia observatory So how can you get your news or photos in The Botetourt View? Keep reading below! Continue reading "An online guide to the July 4 print edition of The Botetourt View" » Sheriff's Office lists May incidentsThe Sheriff's Office has posted a list of incidents in May that it's investigating. For more information, see the sheriff's website. May 30 - Damage to a cabin on Craig Creek Road. May 16 - May 23 - Car Washes on Cloverdale Road had vending machines tampered with and/or money stolen from. May 15 - Vandalism to a vehicle on Cabin Hallow Road. May 12 - Theft of a utility trailer and generator from Traveltown in Cloverdale. May 6 - Theft of vehicle parts on Spring Hollow Road. Photos from dog show at Blue Ridge Vineyard We promised photos from the recent dog show at Blue Ridge Vineyard and Steve Jones has come through for us. You can take a look at some of the pretty pooches in this photo gallery. Our previous post about the event was June 28. So do you have photos from events in Botetourt County? If so, you can share them at news@botetourtview.com just like Steve did. Pool Patrol visits Read Mountain Swim Club Katelyn McDaniel, our summer intern and Pool Patrol photographer, dropped by Read Mountain Swim Club recently. Among those she found there were: Rachel Simpson, 12, Allyson McClellan, 7, Emily McClellan, 9, Haley Davis, 8, Jordan Oyler, 12. We have more photos from Read Mountain Swim Club right here. Earlier in the summer, Katelyn visited Limestone Park in Buchanan. For those photos, click here. Do you have a suggestion on where we should visit next? Email us at news@botetourtview.com Photos by Katelyn McDaniel |
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Welcome to The Notebook, the community gathering place for news and tidbits from The Botetourt View, by community journalist Cathy Benson (that's her on the left). You'll be able to find the most up-to-date news, events and stories in Botetourt County here at this blog. And please join in! You can share your comments, stories, links and ideas here, too. This is your community conversation. .....Advertisement.....
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