Feb. 27, 2020093By Heather Michon’
Correspondent
The Fluvanna County School Board presented their proposed $43.3 million budget to the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday (Feb. 19).
Superintendent Chuck Winkler gave an overview of the proposal, which was passed by the school board on Feb. 12 by a vote of 3-2.
The Fluvanna County school system...
Feb. 27, 20200205By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
In close match-up with Western Albemarle, the Fluco boys track and field team relied on an extremely strong showing in field events to top the Warriors by three points and outscore 14 other schools for the Region 3C title in a meet held on Feb. 19 at Fork Union Military Academy’s indoor...
Feb. 27, 20200191By Madeline Otten
Correspondent
In 2010, Lauren Fender Reed, a student at Longwood University at the time and now a special education teacher in Fluvanna County, came up with the idea of a program to help individuals with disabilities become more inclusive within Fluvanna County.
When mother, Mona Holmes, attending Fender...
Feb. 27, 2020070Press release
The Virginia State Senate has passed House Bill 342 patroned by Delegate Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, to help small vendors at farmers markets.
The bill would create an exemption for vendors from county meals taxes where the sellers’ annual income does not exceed $2,500. Vendors with an income of $2,500 or less are...
Feb. 27, 2020075By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
On Feb.17, the Flying Fluco girls’ basketball team traveled to Albemarle High for a Jefferson District play-off game. In a low scoring, hard fought game the Flucos took a two-point lead into the final quarter but could not prevail, as the Patriots outscored them by seven in the final quarter and the...
Gunilla Lucille (Graesen) Moore, 68, of Palmyra, passed away on Friday, February 21, 2020 at her home surrounded by her daughters and twin sister.
She was born on March 13, 1951, in Vetlanda, Sweden, daughter of the late Carl Gustaf Fredrik Graesen and Lucille Alice Margareta (Johansson) Graesen.
In...
Patricia A. Bellows, 85, of Palmyra, Virginia, died Sunday, February 9, 2020 at the Laurels of Charlottesville.
She was the daughter of the late Francis Raymond Roughan and Matilda Mary Shaner, and was the wife of the late Leslie D. Bellows.
Born in Staten Island, New York, she was a graduate of New Dorp High School and the...