Aug. 29, 20190301By Madeline Otten
Correspondent
Where do you live?
Parrish Farms on Ruritan Lake Road at Cunningham.
How long have you lived in Fluvanna? What brought you here?
All my life, born and raised.
Tell us about your family.
I live with my sister, Joan, on the Parrish home place farm. My brother Wade is married to Beth...
Aug. 28, 20190131Tufton Pond at Lake Monticello has been cleared of blue-green algae after a treatment applied by Solitude Lake Management, a company that specializes in water quality management.
The algae can be harmful to humans and pets. Sign’s warning people to stay out of the water and to keep pets out of the water have been removed, according...
Aug. 22, 20190241By Heather Michon
Correspondent
For the second time in as many months, the Fluvanna School Board deferred a decision on whether to eliminate a standardized testing program known as Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP.
The issue was not originally on the agenda for the meeting on Tuesday (Aug 13), but Andrew Pullen (Columbia)...
Aug. 22, 20190647By Barbara Wimble
Correspondent
After attending the July meeting of the Dolley Madison Quilters Guild, I took out the flannel patchwork quilt I inherited from my Mennonite grandmother that I had stored for years in my cedar chest. (I am changing where I store my quilt because Guild members have informed me that cedar is bad for...
Aug. 22, 20190191By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
Erik A. Otto's book “Detonation,” a dystopian novel reflecting society's worship of technology and chronic innovation is flagged with warning signs in reality. Many authors of this genre have expressed similar concerns, including George Orwell in his classic “1984” or...