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Sheridan, O’Brien re-elected to BOS Leadership
Jan. 13, 20210262 By 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...
Nantucket the subject of author's new book
Jan. 13, 202101031 By 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...
102-Year-Old WWII veteran keeps history alive with stories from the trenches
Jan. 13, 202104768 By 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
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...
BBB warns Central Virginians to beware of stimulus check scams
Jan. 6, 20210122 By 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...
In Scottsville, the mail came by boat, then train
Jan. 6, 20210247 Contributed 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...