Neighborhood News

Fiber artists were taught the skill of drop spinning with homemade drop spindles at a recent Weavers exchange meeting.  The next Weavers Exchange meeting will be at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 21, at the Reynolds Homestead. Anyone interested in fiber arts is welcome. Contact Reynolds Homestead for information on the Weavers...

Crooked Road Director Carrie Beck with artist Ellen Elmes - Rita Surratt, Dickenson County Tourism, Scotty Wampler, Cumberland Plateau PDC - Michelle Workman, VTC. The Crooked Road revealed its first signature art piece on Friday, March 10 in Clintwood, Virginia. The artwork, titled “The Magnificent Mandolin” was painted by local...

The Patrick County Master Gardeners prepared the Learning Garden at 1208 Tudor Orchard Road for the first workshop, to be presented on April 8 at 10 a.m. Topics will include no till gardening, regenerative agriculture, soil biology and the scoop on poop. The May 13 workshop will cover square foot...

Art teachers in Patrick County schools hosted a reception at the Patrick County Public Library on March 9 for Youth Art Month (YAM) show, which met with success, according to Grace Helms, an art teacher. “The night was full of laughter and scavenger hunts. Music was provided by Cedar Wade, a...

At its March 7 meeting, the president (far right) and other members of the Red Bank Ruritan Club welcomed seven new members. Red Bank Ruritan Club’s 2022 Youth Award was presented to Ryan Chaney.

Kylee Childress won the spelling bee at Hardin Reynolds Memorial School (HRMS). Kylee Childress emerged as the winner of the Hardin Reynolds Memorial School’s (HRMS’s) school wide spelling bee on January 18. Students from grades 4-7 participated to determine the top spelling champion. Kylee is a sixth grader who enjoys going...

The Patrick Springs Ruritan Club’s Community Trash Pick-Up attracted help from the club and others as well as Patrick Springs Boy Scout Troop 69. On March 4, trash was collected between Providence Drive to U.S. 58 on Spring Road (Virginia 680), and across the highway on South Mayo Drive to...

Master Gardeners Jessica Hines and Norma Bozenmayer joined Sam Edmondson's Story Time at the library Tuesday Feb 28.  After Edmondson read, "If You Plant a Seed," by Kadir Nelson and "A Seed in Need," by Sam Godwin. The children took a walk through the Books Blooms and Bugs Garden learning...

Master Gardeners learned the skill of apple tree grafting in a hand- on class led by Jonathan Wood. Red Delicious and Jonathan apple scion wood was grafted onto rootstock during the class.

February 28 is celebrated nationally as Letters to Elders Day, where family and friends are encouraged to write letters to their elder relatives to create connections for people living in senior communities. Landmark resident Hazel Ziegler and daughter Janet Handy enjoy the letters received on Letters to Elders Day. This...