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July 17, 2020
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School to Start Aug. 17 with hybrid schedule
Jul. 16, 20200753 School Board meeting held July 8 By Ruthann Carr Correspondent Students who decide to attend school in person will be there two days per week. That’s the plan Fluvanna School Superintendent Chuck Winkler presented to the School Board Wednesday (July 8). Winker said it is the best he can do to serve the learning and safety...
Day care center opening
Jul. 16, 20200239 By Ruthann Carr Correspondent It was a lovely day to welcome one of Fluvanna’s newest businesses: the Learning Ladder Academy. A number of supporters gathered Thursday (July 9) at the new day care at 3739 Lake Monticello Road for a ribbon-cutting/ open house to help owner Pandora Trent celebrate. “This has been a dream come...
Local jazz singer talks about music and life
Jul. 16, 20200327 By Page H. Gifford Correspondent Since she was four Clare Donahue knew she wanted to sing and would often harmonize with television commercials. But it was “Lady Sings the Blues” Billie Holiday that influenced her the most. Holiday's “Strange Fruit” was recently resurrected to illustrate the current climate in today's society....
Fluvanna residents weigh in on monuments
Jul. 9, 20200393 By Page H. Gifford Correspondent In grand, military splendor, General Robert E. Lee sits on his bronze horse in Richmond, bearing a regal attitude fitting a once-revered general and a symbol of Confederate glory. Now the Lee statue is covered in graffiti. Now he stands as a societal statement on race relations in America. Samuel...Knut Olsen
Knut F. Olsen, Palmyra, Va. died peacefully in the arms of his daughter Ann-Louise and son-in-law Joe Fisher Sunday morning, 6/28/2020 after struggling with anemia and a weakened heart valve after open-heart surgery many years ago. Born in Horton, Norway on 7 April, 1930 to a large family, Knut grew up under Nazi occupation until he...