Jan. 20, 20210448By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
Superintendent Chuck Winkler laid out the need and plans for summer school at the Fluvanna School Board meeting Wednesday (Jan. 13).
COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on student’s education: virtual school, hybrid schedules, outbreaks, quarantines, masks and distancing all make learning harder than...
Jan. 20, 20210822By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Residents of Courthouse Road in Palmyra raised concerns about the impact of a proposed development during a public hearing at the Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday night (Jan 12).
Developer Tim Miller of Meridian Planning Group submitted an application to build a housing...
Jan. 13, 20210913By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Several Scottsville residents on both sides of the Fluvanna and Albemarle county lines report receiving neo-Nazi literature outside their homes overnight on Friday. Images of the flyers, headlined “White and Proud!” circulated on social media over the weekend.
The flyers were purportedly from...
Jan. 13, 20210291By 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...
Jan. 13, 202101047By 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, 202104832By 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...