May. 24, 20180201In a letter to members last week, Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) President Gary Wood announced that the company is planning to file a request with the State Corporation Commission (SCC) for a rate increase of between 6 and 7 percent.
Citing increased costs for purchasing power from both Dominion and Appalachian Power and...
May. 24, 2018057By Ruthann Carr, Correspondent
Whether it was the rain or the last-minute change of venue, only about 50 showed up Thursday (May 17) to hear the Virginia Attorney General.
They met at Lake Monticello’s Ashlawn Clubhouse to listen to Democratic 5th District candidate Leslie Cockburn introduce Attorney General Mark...
May. 24, 20180152By Ruthann Carr, Correspondent
With a name like Haden Parrish there’s no doubt this 22-year-old is from Fluvanna.
Parrish’s roots are in Fluvanna, but that doesn’t mean he is afraid of the outside world.
Quite the opposite.
He spent the last four years at the University of Virginia (U.Va.), he’s traveled to Ghana and...
May. 24, 20180307By Duncan Nixon, Correspondent
The big golf event of the year at the Lake Monticello Golf Course is the Faulconer Invitational. It is normally a two-day event. This year due to over 2.5 inches of rain on Friday night (May 18), the first round of the tournament had to be cancelled. The course was simply too wet.
Sunday (May 20) was...
May. 24, 20180164By Christina Dimeo, editor
State Farm has donated five newer-model salvaged vehicles to the Lake Monticello Volunteer Fire Department to help firefighters train for extracting people trapped in crashed vehicles.
The fire department’s extrication tools still work, but aren’t as fast as they could be on newer cars. “New cars...
May. 24, 20180139By Page H. Gifford, correspondent
Every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. a small group gathers near the far corner of Cuppa Joe’s Cafe to talk about writing and read their current work. It is a mixed group of published writers and wannabe writers, but the Writers Group of Fluvanna welcomes anyone interested in writing, published or...
May. 22, 2018091By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
Whether it was the rain or the last-minute change of venue, only about 50 showed up Thursday (May 17) to hear the Virginia Attorney General.
They met at Lake Monticello’s Ashlawn Clubhouse to listen to Democratic 5th District candidate Leslie Cockburn introduce Attorney General Mark...