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Flucos capture Region Title
Jun. 7, 20180224 By Duncan Nixon, Correspondent It was a big week for Coach Joel Gray’s Flying Fluco baseball team. They went 3-0 to capture the Region 3C title. On Memorial Day (May 28) they topped Rustburg High 9-0 in the Region quarterfinals. The next day, in the semifinal and State tournament qualifier, they bested the Spotswood High Blazers...
Fluvanna residents help at Uganda medical clinic
Jun. 7, 20180255 Contributed 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...
Author Describes Genealogical Journey
Jun. 7, 20180235 By 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...
Artist talks about drawing botanicals
Jun. 7, 20180526 By 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...
Man arrested in connection with house fire
Jun. 7, 20180197 Press 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...Letters to the editor
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...
Solar farm opens in Troy
May. 31, 20180609 By 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...