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Lake Monticello celebrates the Fourth with a Spirit Run, a Lake Swim, and golf
Jul. 11, 20240110 By Duncan NixonCorrespondent The annual 5k Spirit Run at Lake Monticello has traditionally been dominated on the male side by Matt Barresi. He is a marathon runner who ran in college at American University in Washington D.C. For him, three miles is sort of a walk in the park. Going into the 2024 run Barresi had won the race 19 times....
Missing for 10 years: Janet Renee Field
Jul. 11, 20240302 Fluvanna County Sheriff’s Office Press Release Ten years ago, over the July 4th weekend, the Fluvanna County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation into a missing person - Janet Renee Field. The investigation has remained open and active ever since. Field, who goes by Renee, was reportedly last seen by her husband, Lewis...
Fluvanna happenings: what’s new?
Jul. 4, 2024092 By Rae AlbertsCorrespondent Fun Fact of the Week: did you know that a sperm whale’s vocalizations are louder than a jet engine? They are the loudest animals on earth, capable of making sounds up to 230 decibels; jet engines cap out at around 150 decibels. Wow! Leadership Registration for Fluvanna Leadership Development...
Stargazing in Fluvanna
Jul. 4, 2024062 By Pat Beers Block Welcome to this month’s highlights of enjoyable evening and morning sky events! This month there are a significant number of planetary, and planet/star conjunction alignments as well as titillating lunar and meteor events that will inspire us to go out into the warm summer temperatures to observe and enjoy...
Planning Commission defers removing utility-scale solar from ag zoning districts
Jul. 4, 20240176 By Heather MichonCorrespondent A special meeting of the Planning Commission on Tuesday (June 25) ended in a deferral, as committee members failed to reach a consensus on a measure that would eliminate utility-scale solar facilities on land zoned as agricultural. Under current ordinances, solar projects of two megawatts or greater...
Fluvanna Faces: Susan VonDerBecke
Jul. 4, 2024058 By Harvey J. SorumCorrespondent Susan, are you a native of Fluvanna County? If not where did you reside before and why did you move to Fluvanna County? No, we moved here in 2000. Before that Alex, my husband, and I lived in central NJ. His family had property in Palmyra and after his dad passed away most of his family moved to...
Lake Monticello Swim Team outscores Green Hills Gators by four points
Jul. 4, 2024099 By Duncan NixonCorrespondent The temperature was in the mid-nineties at 6 p.m. on June 26 when the LMST Sharks hosted the Green Hills Gators at the Lake Monticello pool. Parents, grandparents, siblings and other spectators were all in search of shade. The meet was shortened by a serious cloud burst, but 33 events were completed. The...