Jan. 28, 20210461By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
It’s budget time.
Just about every meeting from the first of the year until it’s finalized is filled with budget considerations: health care, staff pay, bonuses, spending priorities and district-wide needs.
This year the Fluvanna County School Board has an additional task: searching for a new...
Douglass Henry Frazier, a quiet and deep-thinking man, departed this life on January 14, 2021 surrounded by family following a long illness. Doug was born on June 11, 1934 in Marion, VA and raised in Spotsylvania, VA.
He was predeceased by his parents, George Clark Frazier and Mary Gibson Frazier; siblings Margaret Frazier Orrock...
Jan. 20, 20210232By Madeline Otten
Correspondent
Where do you live?
“I live in Palmyra.”
How long have you lived in Fluvanna County? What brought you here?
“I was born and raised in Fluvanna County, moved away after graduating from Saint Paul’s College and lived in Danville, Virginia for over 20 years. I returned to Fluvanna to be...
Jan. 20, 20210429By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
Superintendent Chuck Winkler laid out the need and plans for summer school at the Fluvanna School Board meeting Wednesday (Jan. 13).
COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on student’s education: virtual school, hybrid schedules, outbreaks, quarantines, masks and distancing all make learning harder than...
Jan. 20, 20210794By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Residents of Courthouse Road in Palmyra raised concerns about the impact of a proposed development during a public hearing at the Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday night (Jan 12).
Developer Tim Miller of Meridian Planning Group submitted an application to build a housing...
Jan. 13, 20210862By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Several Scottsville residents on both sides of the Fluvanna and Albemarle county lines report receiving neo-Nazi literature outside their homes overnight on Friday. Images of the flyers, headlined “White and Proud!” circulated on social media over the weekend.
The flyers were purportedly from...
Jan. 13, 20210257By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Supervisors Mike Sheridan (Columbia) and Tony O’Brien (Rivanna) will serve another year as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board of Supervisors, after each was unanimously re-elected by fellow supervisors during their first regular meeting of 2021 on Wednesday night (Jan. 6).
Members also voted to...