Fluvanna Review

Photo by Lisa HurdleHearing delaying because of protests
“I was flabbergasted,” Lake Monticello resident Deborah Nixon recalled. “If I hadn’t been working the camera I would have said something.”
So began a storm of controversy that has swept over Lake Monticello since the April 25 meeting of its board of directors.
Busy filming the directors’ meeting for broadcast on channel 977, Nixon’s ears perked up when vice president Joy Bauserman read her proposed policy changes to the rest of the board. If the changes are adopted, children under the age of 16 will no longer be allowed to use most Lake Monticello Owners’ Association (LMOA) amenities without adult supervision.

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Lake Monticello Owners’ Association (LMOA) has taken a position in opposition to the application by Aqua Virginia to increase its water and sewer rates. In November 2011, Aqua Virginia filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for a statewide increase averaging 9.9%. The increase for Lake Monticello residents would be more than 13% for water and more than 11% for sewer. The application comes just months after Aqua Virginia attempted to impose ownership of grinder pumps onto homeowners. Aqua Virginia‘s last rate increase was approved in October 2010.

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Photo courtesy of Horace ScruggsAfter more than 10 performances during the spring semester alone, how does one concert stand out above the rest? With 23 years of experience as Fluvanna County High School choral director, Horace Scruggs knows how to make a concert pop. And this year’s Pops Concert is designed to do just that.
“This year we’re trying to make it more than a concert,” declared Scruggs. “We’re really trying to make it a show with full choreography and lighting.” Gone are the days of squeezing into a gymnasium with sound bouncing all over the walls and fizzling into corners. Now the choral department has come home to its own state-of-the-art auditorium in the new high school. Making this Pops Concert an event to remember will be easy.
So this Sunday (May 19) at 4 p.m., the FCHS choral department hopes to see the auditorium packed with community members ready for a good show.
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Leslie, Christy and George Cushnie enjoy their new tasting room. Photo by O.T. Holen.Fluvanna’s only winery is growing more than grapes.

Thistle Gate owners George and Leslie Cushnie have opened a tasting room, though the official grand opening is scheduled for early October.

 

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Rob Browning with his art.It was hot, triple digit temperature day and in Palmyra they had no electricity, so things were heating up at Maggie’s house and elsewhere. But by 11, the lights and air conditioning were back on and the artists were chatting with onlookers about their work at the second annual Artist’s Studio Tour.

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