Jan. 13, 202101031By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
Anyone who has ever visited Nantucket Island, recalls a picturesque fishing village steeped in history, clapboard or shingled houses, with widow walks and colorful manicured gardens and cobblestone streets lined with boutiques and restaurants with names reminiscent of its Quaker-Puritan roots...
Jan. 13, 202104764By Joshua Harris, FCHS Mass Media Student
It was a cold December night in France, 1944. Climeth Layman lay awake in a bunker. His only job was to call in the artillery should the Germans arrive.
Two days earlier, Layman’s lieutenant had stopped by and given him the supplies he needed to call in an artillery barrage. The...
Alfred William “Jack” Anderson of Lake Monticello, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and brother, entered his Heavenly home on Saturday, January 2, 2021.
Jack was born in Irvington, NJ to the late Harry and Emily (Burnett) Anderson on August 8, 1932. After serving in the Army during the Korean War, Jack...
Jan. 6, 20210122By Heather Michon
Correspondent
The US Treasury Department has begun sending out a new round of $600 stimulus checks, and the Better Business Bureau of Central Virginia (BBB) is warning residents to beware of scammers using it as an opportunity for fraud and identity theft.
“BBB is getting reports of con artists claiming that...
Jan. 6, 20210247Contributed by Evelyn Edson, president, Scottsville Museum
Time was, the mail came by boat. Twice a day the packet boat arrived, one from Richmond heading west and one from Lynchburg going in the other direction. Then came the train.
There was not so much mail in those days. Sometimes the day's haul would fit in the postmaster's...
Jan. 6, 20210327Fluvanna currently averaging 11.7 new COVID cases per day
By Heather Michon
Correspondent
The Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD) has announced its initial plans for delivering COVID vaccinations to frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable populations in the coming months.
BRHD (formerly the Thomas Jefferson Health District)...
Jan. 6, 20210212BY DUNCAN NIXON
CORRESPONDENT
High school sports have returned in the state of Virginia. An abbreviated Fluco basketball schedule kicked off on Dec. 23 when the Fluco boys’ team under Coach Heath Bralley traveled to Goochland.
The Flucos rained three pointers down making 13 of 24 attempts from beyond the arch. Understandably,...