Throng of visitors this weekend to Walhalla

Walhalla plays host this weekend to the Mountains Festival and Southeast Gravel — Race to Valhalla.  There will be road closures.  Tim Rice, police chief, announces that all lanes of Main Street, from Oak to Ann, will be closed Saturday from 6 am to 6 pm.  Crossover intersection will be closed to vehicle traffic at College, Tugaloo, Church and Oak streets.  But crossovers at Catherine, Spring and Ann remain open.  Pedestrians should use the crosswalks to move block to block.  Rice requests the drivers remember that after 6 Saturday morning, turns onto Main Street will not be allowed.  There’ll be signs and barricades.  Ken’s Pharmacy customers may use the Blue Ridge Bank parking lot across from S. College Street.