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	<title>Craig County Tourism</title>
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	<description>Gateway to Virginia&#039;s Western Highlands</description>
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		<title>Memorial Day &#8212; May 31, 2010</title>
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Monday is Memorial Day, a day when we remember those fallen Veterans of the Armed Services.
Craig County was connected to the War between the States by many young men who took up the cause. From World War One until the Present Day, many men and women have joined up with Uncle Sam.
We have a lot of Service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Snapper</title>
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Early in April, during spring break, my brother and his family came for a visit.  We had an enjoyable few days, filled with socializing and driving.  In addition to visiting me and our niece in Richmond, brother Joe wanted to show his wife and daughter his museum exhibit at the Prizery Community Arts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=159</link>
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		<title>The new business buzz around town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy here it is April 1st but feeling a lot more like summer with the warmth of the sun shooting the temperature up to 84 degrees.  Not only is spring budding here in New Castle so are several new businesses that are as exciting as the prospect of spring.
The buzz on Main Street are two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=154</link>
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		<title>A chance encounter</title>
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Last week I was just chugging along through the work week, when I received a wrong number call.  Once the caller realized who he had called, he asked, &#8220;Oh&#8230;is this Wilderness Adventure there in New Castle?&#8221;  I responded yes inquisitvley.  The caller turned out to be one of the new owners of Big Pine Trout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Harbingers of Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our two most common harbingers of spring, the robin and crocus, arrived ahead of the official spring date. In fact both appeared before all the snow melted. In a few days the early iris, both yellow and purple, were in full bloom.
Craig County&#8217;s climate is ideal for the hardy spring bulbs. Daffodils foliage thrived underneath [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Welcome to our blog, Holly Wadey!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carpenter Bees
I have a small back porch, just big enough for a couple of chairs and a small table.  That’s where I have my morning coffee and observe the goings on at the creek.  Living in the county has introduced me to previously unobserved critters.  One of them is the carpenter bee.
They’re those big, fuzzy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Hotel&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Large fluffy snowflakes have been in a rush this morning to reach down and join the many inches left behind from deposits in previous weeks. Here in Craig County the accumulation has been the deepest we have seen in several years and has tried to stop us in our tracks. Some of the rural roads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=96</link>
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		<title>snow</title>
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Snow is snowy when it&#8217;s snowing
I&#8217;m sorry it&#8217;s slushy when it&#8217;s going
 from Winter Morning Poem by Ogden Nash
Husband and I took a walk this afternoon through Scratch Ankle. We should have done this earlier when the sun was out, he said. But we couldn&#8217;t see then, it was too bright, I said. And we&#8217;da [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Potpourri &#8211; Winter&#8217;s warmth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like everywhere else in this part of Virginia winter has dug in its heels here in Craig County and appears to be content to stick around for a while. An ice storm came through last night leaving crystallized mountain tops and slick roads closing schools once again.  But then that’s January for you especially here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=79</link>
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		<title>A Little Bit of Craig County History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.And it was a stately courthouse that Craig County built!
The County Justices received their commissions on April 4th and were sworn in at the first meeting on April 24, 1851. Barely into the business of running the new county, the seventeen Justices of the Peace had to turn their attention to appointing a committee to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://craigcountyva.info/blog/?p=68</link>
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