Dec. 4, 20190271By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
Coaches Steve Szarmach and Rose Brogan both have a good number of All-State and All-Region athletes returning for the 2019-20 winter indoor track and field season. Coach Szarmach’s boys’ squad finished second in the Region and ninth in the State meets last season. The girls’ team under Coach Brogan...
Dec. 4, 20190632By Madeline Otten
Correspondent
Where do you live?
“We live on Plain Dealing Road in Kents Store.”
How long have you lived in Fluvanna County? What brought you here?
“I have been in Fluvanna for most of my life. I grew up in Scottsville and moved to Kents Store, where my wife’s family is...
Dec. 4, 20190112By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
Several members of the Fluvanna Art Association visited Crossroads Gallery in Richmond on November 16 for their yearly field trip. In years past, trips included highlighted exhibits at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and various workshops. They had visited the Nichols Gallery and learned about...
Minnie Lee May McGehee passed away November 21, 2019. She follows her parents: James Franklin May, Sr. and Sarah Jennie Garner May, her siblings Mary Frances Blodgett, Sarah Josephine Marshall, James Franklin May, Jr. and Samuel Stanley May and her husband Henry Corr McGehee. She is survived by her brother John H. May: his wife...
Nov. 28, 20190133By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The leaves are mostly down, the days are getting shorter, and The Flying Fluco winter sports season is about to begin. Longtime girls’ basketball Coach Chad White and first year boys’ basketball Coach Heath Bralley both expect to play up-tempo basketball this year.
Coach White has a strong...
Nov. 28, 20190115By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
Since its beginning, Thelma Stowell was at the forefront of local theater and one of the founders of the Persimmon Tree Players. Stowell was nothing less than enthusiastic and dedicated when it came to designing and sewing costumes and performing on stage. Members recalled that in the past few years,...
Nov. 28, 20190467By Heather Michon
Correspondent
If you live in Fluvanna County, you can’t avoid deer. In our fields, by our roadsides, in our yards, they are everywhere—a hazard for drivers, a nuisance for gardeners, a challenge for hunters, a delight for nature-watchers.
But for all their ubiquity, most of us know very little about our...