Feb. 29, 20240349
By Page H. GiffordCorrespondent
Recently, three black bear cubs, each weighing less than two pounds, were admitted to the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro after their den was destroyed at a construction site in Orange County. The cub's mother fled during the incident, and one of the cubs was injured. Wildlife biologists...
Feb. 29, 2024074
By Page H. GiffordCorrespondent
Carol Sorber is a unique artist among Fluvanna Art Association members, sculpting in glass using a small flame torch. Her studio is not like the other members who paint, do mixed media, or pastels.
At the FAA monthly meeting on Feb. 20, she described her working environment where she creates...
Feb. 29, 2024062
By Duncan NixonCorrespondent
The Fluco spring sports season runs from mid-March to mid-May and there is a lot of activity packed into those 60 plus days. Baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls lacrosse and track and field, all have to be accommodated. In addition, there are JV teams in...
Feb. 25, 20240190
By Heather MichonCorrespondent
The Learning Resources Review Committee (LRC) and its newly appointed citizen representatives met for the first time on Jan. 30 to discuss how they would tackle the two dozen library books challenged for alleged inappropriate content late last year.
But the public, for the most part, didn’t hear...
Feb. 25, 20240114
By Page H. GiffordCorrespondent
On March 6, at 10 a.m., at the Fluvanna County Public Library, artist Linda Staiger will discuss the collaborative portrait project, Looking Back Seeing Now at the monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library.
The original idea for the project began before the Covid pandemic when Tricia Johnson,...
Feb. 25, 2024093
By Duncan NixonCorrespondent
There once were two eighteen-hole golf courses in Fluvanna County, but now the Lake Monticello course is the only game in town. Luckily, it is a good game. The course is challenging but fair and there are multiple tees for players of both sexes and all abilities. Nowadays all men and all women are not...
Joyce Chippindale, 93, of Palmyra, Virginia died on February 2, 2024, at Monroe Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Born September 8, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of Alfred Anderson and Emilie Jungwirth. She was proceeded in death by her husband Henry Chippindale and her son Glenn Chippindale.
Joyce...
Ann Marie Stewart, age 59, of Richmond, Virginia passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2024. She is predeceased by her grandfather, Stuart Haden of Goochland, VA; grandmother, Erminie Haden of Goochland, VA; grandmother, Kathryn Warwick of Arlington, VA, and stepmother, Ellen H. Stewart of Charlottesville, VA.
Ann Marie is survived...