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Lynn Fairchild Martin
It is with great sadness that the family announces Lynn’s passing on Aug. 1, 2018, after a long battle with cancer at the age of 51. She lived in Lynchburg, but grew up as a teenager at Lake Monticello, and graduated from Fluvanna County High School in 1984. Lynn was born Sept. 8, 1966. Preceding her in death was her father, William...
Mother Stanton shines at 100 years old
Aug. 23, 20180169 By Sue A. Miles, Correspondent When you walk into Mother Stanton’s quaint home on a dead-end road in Buckingham’s Stanton Town, one of the first things you see is a wood stove. Resting for the summer, it represents a long-ago era when such stoves produced delicious food while heating the home. For Mother Stanton, that era still...
Man sentenced in unusual DUI case
Aug. 21, 201801588 By Heather Michon, correspondent A Greene County man was sentenced in Fluvanna County Circuit Court Friday afternoon (Aug. 17) after pleading guilty to an unusual DUI charge. Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeff Haislip told Judge Richard E. Moore that Jason Scott Breeden, 44, was pulled over by Sergeant Stephen Proffitt of the Fluvanna...
Supervisors approve Bremo substation
Aug. 18, 20180499 By Heather Michon, correspondent The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors approved Wednesday evening (Aug. 15) a special use permit requested by Virginia Electric & Power to build an electric transmission substation near Bremo. The substation, which will be built on right of way property already owned by Dominion, is needed to...
Defending our profession
Aug. 16, 20180693 Editorial By Carlos Santos, publisher Last week the Fluvanna Review published a story on a proposed 4 percent meals tax. We also published a story on school lunch debts, local karate athletes heading to Brazil and about the new school staff. None of it’s fake news. The stories are about life in Fluvanna County. We work hard to...
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Firestorm lit at School Board meeting
Aug. 16, 201801079 By Ruthann Carr, Correspondent What appeared to be the close of a normal School Board meeting Wednesday (Aug. 8) turned into anything but. Shirley Stewart (Rivanna) took issue with how Chair Perrie Johnson (Fork Union) greeted school staff at a breakfast Aug. 2, so she proposed the following motion: “I would like to make the...