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Supervisors chose to keep current districts
Dec. 23, 20210280 But boundaries of Columbia and Fork Union move west By Heather Michon Correspondent The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Wednesday night (Dec. 15) to adopt Redistricting Map 5, Scenario 2. This map keeps the current districts but moves the boundaries of Columbia and Fork Union west into the more populous areas...
Merry COVID Christmas, 2021
Dec. 23, 20210295 By Page H. Gifford Correspondent Because of the pandemic, Christmas was isolating and dismal for some last year. This year, many understand there is still a risk with the Delta and Omicron variants but are willing to take that risk if it means being with friends and family. But COVID still hangs over the holiday season. Writer Leslie...
Fluvanna Faces: Bradley N. Howdyshell
Dec. 23, 20210407 By Harvey J. Sorum Correspondent Prior to becoming a funeral director for Thacker Brothers Funeral Homes, what was your profession?? Emergency Services - 911 dispatcher and volunteer EMT Why did you decide to become a funeral director? When I was nine, my grandmother died at our home on Hospice care and my grandfather died...
Fluvanna couple travel using “nesting” concept
Dec. 23, 20210260 By Page H. Gifford Correspondent Sue and Allan Mink love traveling and in the past, they have visited places in England, Poland, and Asia, but not as quick trips to see few sites like most do but to soak in the culture by living in these places for three months. But COVID halted their Spain trip last year. Getting the itch to travel...
Village Gardens fails to win rezoning fight
Dec. 15, 20210436 By Heather Michon Correspondent A long-running drama came to an end at the Planning Commission on Tuesday night (Dec. 7), as commissioners voted 5-0 to deny a rezoning request for the controversial Village Gardens housing development. This was the third time since Sept. 14 that the commission had devoted almost a full meeting to...
Holiday gift from school board
Dec. 15, 20210315 By Ruthann Carr Correspondent At its meeting Wednesday (Dec. 8) the Fluvanna County School Board voted to give staff and students an early Christmas gift: three days off. Superintendent Peter Gretz said Dec. 20, 21 and 22 were scheduled as school days, but he suggested adding them to the holiday vacation. Gretz said giving that...Doris Inez Hughes Hollis
Sister of Mozell H. Booker Doris Inez Hughes was born on September 4, 1932 to her parents, Allen Shannon Hughes and Harriett Lee Garland Hughes, at their home in Fork Union, VA. Doris attended Dunbar Rosenwald School on Mountain Hill Road in 1941 and graduated from S.C. Abrams High School in 1950. At a young age, because she did...