Aug. 20, 20210232By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
The Fluvanna NAACP is sponsoring a third virtual health forum on Thursday, Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. Their forums focus on current health issues and the previous two discussions centered on information regarding COVID-19. Medical experts answer questions and present important information on how we can keep...
Aug. 20, 20210300By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The Fluvanna County high school football team is preparing for a regular fall schedule in 2021. It will be the second football season of 2021, as the team played an abbreviated 2020-21 season in February and March, due to the pandemic caused cancellation of the regular 2020 fall football season.
The...
Aug. 20, 20210591By Heather Michon
Correspondent
The Fluvanna County School Board held its regular meeting on Wednesday (Aug. 11), a marathon five-and-a-half-hour session that covered the twin controversies of mask wearing and transgender policies, and even featured an unexpected cameo by Representative Bob Good (R-Va 5th).
The meeting came just...
Aug. 11, 20210300Some have failed on emergency calls
By Heather Michon
Correspondent
County rescue squads are operating with cardiac monitors and automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) that are themselves on life support. All have reached end-of-life, and some have failed on recent emergency calls.
The replacement cost for all units is...
Aug. 11, 20210229By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
Like many artists who begin their artistic journey with a pencil at a young age, Joanne Braniff was no different. And as soon as she was able to hold a pencil she began drawing.
“My first validation came from a sixth-grade teacher who asked me to draw the Statue of Liberty for a bulletin board - yes,...
Aug. 11, 20210197By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The Fluvanna County High School golf season is underway, even though the students are not yet back in school. On Aug. 5, the Fluco golf team under Coach Bryan Searcy hosted the George Bockman Memorial Tournament at the Lake Monticello golf course.
There were nine high schools participating and 51...
Aug. 11, 20210795By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
She just wants her family’s land.
Ruth Anderson Wilcox’s sister died in 2019. That sister did a lot of research into their Fluvanna ancestor William Burton Payne, a former slave of the Wills family.
Upon emancipation, Payne bought 100-plus acres of land north of Palmyra on Rt. 15.
That land...