Mar. 4, 20210114Press release
Blue Ridge Outdoors, one of the premier environmental publications in the eastern U.S., recently recognized Ida Swenson of Lake Monticello, a 15-year Virginia Master Naturalist, as one of three individuals voted by over 62,000 readers as “Best in the Blue Ridge” in the “Environmentalist’ category. Among the many...
Mar. 4, 20210137By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
The Friends of the Library made a comeback online on Feb. 24 after an absence of nearly a year with a program on black artists celebrating Black History Month. The speaker was Nancy Hirshbein, who is a docent with the Hirschhorn Museum and the Smithsonian Art Museum as well as a volunteer with the...
Feb. 24, 20210231Schools Seeking $788,000 More Than Last Year
By Heather Michon
Correspondent
The Fluvanna County School Board presented its $18.8 million budget to the Board of Supervisors at a budget work session on Wednesday (Feb. 17).
They anticipate that the county will need to pay an estimated $788,000 more than the previous fiscal...
Feb. 24, 20210130By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
As we all know, due to COVID-19, there was no fall 2020 high school football season. Fluco head coach Mike Morris is preparing his team for a shortened 2020-21 football season which will be played in Feb.-Apr. of this year. Hopefully, the 2021-22 season will be played as usual in the fall of 2021. Hope...
Feb. 24, 20210515By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
When viewing one of Jane Feild's many sculptures, one lingers for a while, soaking in the striking iridescent beauty and color. Her subjects cover almost anything from a dog to sea creatures and even an ice cream cone (commissioned for an ice cream shop) but mostly her fish and other sea creatures are...
Feb. 24, 20210219By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
We may still be in the throes of winter but it is now decision time for golfers in Fluvanna County. Annual contracts at the Lake Monticello course run from March 1 to the end of February. The Lake Monticello course is the only option in Fluvanna County for local golfers. The Lake Monticello Owners...
Feb. 24, 20210911Contributed by Mike Feazel
Photos by Kris Krechoweckyj, Jackie Bland, and Jan Pavlacka
There are many recent improvements in historic downtown Palmyra, and most of them are due to a group of volunteers who don’t even live there. Much of the work was done by the Palmyra Area Revitalization Committee (PARC), which recently...