Paddle Protest: Protect Our Water, Move Your Ash!
Old Cliffside Mill 35.238986, -81.767038Take part in a paddle protest on the Broad River and tell Duke Energy to stop polluting our waters!
Take part in a paddle protest on the Broad River and tell Duke Energy to stop polluting our waters!
Join us for a river and trail cleanup on the Broad River Greenway. We will meet at the canoe access, just downstream from the Ranger Station. We encourage folks to bring your boat and paddle the Broad to collect trash or walk the trails to clean up the greenway. Please bring gloves and trash bags. If you're celebrating Easter that day, bring the whole family! This is a great way to finish up a holiday.
We are proud to announce our debut film screening in Shelby, NC benefiting both The Earl Scruggs Center and MountainTrue! We are excited to partner with the Earl Scruggs Center in bringing to Shelby these inspiring films that showcase women in all their tenacity, their spunk and their femininity. Through hosting No Man’s Land, we […]
Join us for the 1st ever Broad River Race Day! We welcome folks to race at their own pace, and enjoy 5 miles on the most beautiful stretch of the Broad River. Remember, the hare may not out run the tortoise!
Join us for our fourth annual Sarah Sweep river clean up. After the clean-up we will head back to the Cotton Mill for an evening of fabulous local music, the best grilled veggies and meats, and friendship fun for all. There is a suggested $10 donation for the food and music to help raise funds for the Broad Riverkeeper program and the Double Shoals Mill.
Since fall has finally arrived, we're grabbing our boats and headed out onto the Broad River to enjoy the fall colors. We will paddle a beautiful and remote stretch of the Broad from Shelby, NC to Gafney, SC that few people get to enjoy! Because the fall foliage is hard to predict, we're reserving several dates as options for the paddle. We will set a firm date on Nov. 6th based on the weather forecast and river conditions and will email folks who've signed up with the final date.
The NC Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) has listened to thousands of North Carolinians and ordered Duke Energy to clean up its coal ash at the Cliffside Plant and six other sites across the state. February 25 is the last hearing on the Cliffside plant to tell NCDEQ that a full cleanup is the only […]