Jan. 20, 20220233By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The Fluco wrestling squad, under the tutelage of Coach Michael Gore, hosted the 5th annual Billy Wensel wrestling tournament on Saturday Jan. 15.
This year’s event brought in 15 visiting wrestling squads from around the region. The Fluco team finished in a respectable 8th place. Two Fluco...
Jan. 20, 20220201By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
This is what high school sports is all about. Two varsity basketball games played back-to-back with maximum intensity and close results. Usually, when the varsity boys are at home, the girls are away and vice versa. On Jan. 14 the Fluco girls’ varsity hosted the Orange County varsity at 6 p.m. and the...
Jan. 20, 20220117By Harvey Sorum
Correspondent
Tell us about your past before becoming the Fluvanna County Public Library director.
I grew up on a dairy farm in up-state New York in the Finger Lakes – most of my family still lives up there. I have a very large extended family there. I went to undergraduate school for Russian and...
Jan. 20, 20220408By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
At its first meeting of 2022 (Jan. 12) the Fluvanna School Board:
Welcomed new member Gequetta Murray-Key (Rivanna)
Voted James Kelley (Palmyra) as Chair
Voted Perrie Johnson (Fork Union) as Vice Chair
Changed meetings to the second Thursday of each month
Meetings will still be held in...
Jan. 20, 20220240By Heather Michon
Correspondent
The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors held its first meeting of 2022 on Wednesday (Jan. 12), delayed by a week due to the previous week’s snowstorm.
This was the first meeting for Chris Fairchild, who was elected in November as supervisor for Cunningham District. He replaces Donald Weaver,...
Jan. 13, 20220703By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
The Kents Store Agriculture and Recreation Center (ARC) has been around for 60 years. Its original purpose related to the tobacco farming in that area of Fluvanna County. Things are much different now and families who have lived in the area for decades see the potential in using the center for other...
Jan. 13, 20220512By Heather Michon
Correspondent
2022 got off to an exciting start for Fluvanna County, as a week of unseasonably warm temperatures gave way early Monday morning (Jan. 3) to a crippling winter storm that dumped the better part of a season’s worth of snow on the area in the space of just a few hours.
Up to a foot of wet, heavy...
Jan. 13, 20220634Contributed by Judy Fish, Lake Monticello News
The Lake Monticello Volunteer Fire Department along with Palmyra and Fork Union Fire Companies were dispatched Jan. 5 to 15 Pinehurst Road at Lake Monticello to investigate a report of smoke inside a residence.
“Lake Monticello fire personnel were met by the homeowner who reported...
Jan. 13, 20220219By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
It was more than a beautiful snowfall.
On Jan. 3, as much as 12 inches of heavy, wet snow fell onto ice-laden branches toppling trees and taking out power to Fluvanna and much of Central Virginia.
Some lost power for six to 12 hours, others for days
Dominion Energy serves much of...