Jun. 7, 20180220Contributed by Robert Maher
Africa – no other continent invokes the imagination, mystery and fascination than Africa. Five of us from all walks of life departed Palmyra in the depths of winter’s bleakness and arrived in Uganda, a country dubbed by Winston Churchill as the Pearl of Africa, during the peak of its summer.
Our...
Jun. 7, 20180202By Page H. Gifford, Correspondent
During a talk on genealogy, Leontyne Clay Peck told residents of Lake Monticello Wednesday evening (May 30) about her genealogical journey, beginning with her father.
“I asked him about his relatives, and all he ever told me was ‘they’re all dead.’ ” Her pathway to her heritage began with...
Jun. 7, 20180457By Page H. Gifford, Correspondent
Tiny little tangled roots, fall leaves dried and curled with bits of faded color, peeling bark, are just a few a few things artist and illustrator Lara Call Gastinger finds in the natural world to draw. Her work is painstakingly meticulous and all done in pen and watercolor. She demonstrated her...
Jun. 7, 20180164Press release
A Mechanicsville man was arrested Sunday (June 3) by the Fluvanna County’s Sheriff’s Office and charged in connection with a fire that severely damaged a house on Miles Jackson Road just east of Palmyra.
Cole Spencer Augustus Carter, 26, was arrested by Fluvanna deputies and charged with one count of arson, three...
Too many outages
Dominion Virginia Power has customer service issues and no answers. My power went out Saturday, June 2, for about eight hours; again on Sunday, June 3 from 1 to 6 p.m., and again on Monday, June 4 from 10 a.m. to noon. I spoke with repairmen (three trucks working on outage) and they had no answers. This was told to me...
May. 31, 20180491By Heather Michon, correspondent
Gov. Ralph Northam was the guest of honor at Central Virginia Electric Cooperative’s (CVEC) dedication of a new solar farm in Troy on Tuesday (May 22)—but the real star of the show was the sun, which emerged just before the hour-long ceremony and vanished not long after it finished.
As a group...
May. 31, 20180350Fluvanna County High School celebrated the graduation of 266 students of the Class of 2018 Saturday (May 26) at the Phil Browning Stadium in the R.J. Searcy Sports Complex.
Photos by Fluvanna Sports Photography ...
May. 31, 20180836By Heather Michon, Correspondent
Dante Givens was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday (May 25) for his role in the 2016 robbery and shooting on Lake Monticello Road – the final sentence handed down in a crime that left a Fluvanna County man permanently injured.
Givens sat at the bottom of what Commonwealth’s Attorney...