Jan. 24, 20190627By Madeline Otten
Correspondent
Jason Stewart, Fluvanna County’s director of community development, has 13 years of experience behind him and plans to make changes within his new role.
Stewart’s first job with Fluvanna began when he was hired in December 2013 as the planning and zoning administrator. He is currently still...
Jan. 24, 20190328By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The Fluco wrestling team, under Coach Michael Gore, hosted the third annual Billy Wensel classic invitational Saturday (Jan. 19). The tournament is named for a long-time Fluvanna resident who was a wrestler and a wrestling coach and is suffering from ALS. Wensel and his family were in attendance for the...
Jan. 24, 2019081By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
Writers approach their craft from varied perspectives. Writing may be guided by opinion, humor, logic, debate, emotion and memory. A picture emerges in the writer's mind, which may be fact or fiction.
For every writer, it is a personal journey; it connects with the spirit, awakening a curiosity to...
Jan. 22, 201901417By Heather Michon, correspondent
Residents along James Madison Highway and Route 6 say they recently found an unwelcome surprise at their homes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: recruitment fliers from the Ku Klux Klan.
Images of one of the flyers were posted on a local social media group on Monday (Jan. 21). Headlined “African...
Jan. 21, 201901097Tackles teacher pay
By Heather Michon, correspondent
Members of the Fluvanna County School Board met Thursday (Jan. 18) for a half-day seminar on the budget for the 2020 fiscal year.
Chair Perrie Johnson (Fork Union), Shirley Stewart (Rivanna), and Andrew Pullen (Columbia) formed a quorum. Brenda Pace (Palmyra) and Charles...
Jan. 19, 201901190Family safe
By Christina Dimeo, editor
A space heater likely started a blaze that consumed the Fork Union home of Jane and William Ford.
Just before noon Thursday (Jan. 17) a report of a house fire came into dispatch, said Fluvanna Fire Chief Mike Brent.
“We knew we had a pretty good one going,” said Brent. “The first...
Jan. 18, 201902135Press release
A Palmyra man faces multiple charges resulting from an investigation by the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement (JADE) Task Force and the Fluvanna County Sheriff's Office.
Kenneth Wayne Farish, 37, was arrested Wednesday (Jan. 16) on one felony count of possession with intent to distribute a Schedule I/II drug (cocaine),...