Feb. 16, 20220169By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The Fluvanna boys basketball team ended its regular season with games against two of the top teams in the region. Albemarle and Orange County are significantly bigger schools than Fluvanna County High School, but the Flucos held their own.
The Patriots of Albemarle High came to Fluvanna on Feb. 8 with...
Feb. 16, 20220528By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
After listening to vitriol about a moot mask mandate issue, the Fluvanna County School Board passed a fiscal year 2023 budget Thursday (Feb.10).
The nearly $52 million budget ($51,983,078) includes:
5 percent compensation increase for all employees;
7 percent compensation increase for the...
Feb. 16, 20220334Residents are encouraged to participate in defining future county land use
By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Community Development Director Douglas Miles outlined the county’s plan to update the 2040 Comprehensive Plan before the Planning Commission at its meeting on Tuesday night (Feb. 8).
The Comprehensive Plan lays out a...
Winifred “Winnie” Browning, 88, of Lake Monticello, VA, passed away on February 4, 2022. She was born on February 10, 1933, in Richmond, VA to the late Robert Cleveland Perkins and Gertrude Rosson Perkins of Fork Union, VA. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Phillip Coleman Browning; infant...
Feb. 9, 20220265Dahl proposes $96 million budge;, tax rates to remain stable
By Heather Michon
Correspondent
County Administrator Eric Dahl unveiled his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) during a work session at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday night (Feb. 2).
Dahl is proposing a budget of $96,290,691, a decrease of 14.8...
Feb. 9, 20220250By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
Fluvanna School Superintendent Peter Gretz presented a proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget at Wednesday’s Feb. 2 budget meeting.
It included adding a half-time English language learner teacher, two school counselors (one at Carysbrook and one at the high school) and one more nurse at the high...
Feb. 9, 20220265By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
Fluvanna welcomed two new businesses Saturday (Feb. 5) with ribbon-cutting celebrations for Lakelady Therapeutics and D’Mary Store and Deli.
About 30 people stopped by Lakelady Therapeutics, 6440 Thomas Jefferson Parkway to see owner Rachel Hartless and her massage/yoga space.
Hartless showed...
Feb. 9, 20220230By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
“Libraries across the U.S. have been pressed into action,” according to a Jan. 18 Washington Post article. Library workers were compared with front-line workers handing out supplies of free COVID test kits and ending up exhausted and overwhelmed. Is Fluvanna any different?
Library Director...