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Star gazing in your back yard
Jan. 3, 2024093 By Pat Beers Block Welcome to this month’s highlights of enjoyable events that will happen in the evening and morning skies above! Sky gazing is a fun way to engage in the world around us, helping us to appreciate all of the exciting events that happen in the evening and morning sky. Events like meteor showers, solar and lunar...
Fluvanna Faces: Kelley and Shawn Metcalf
Jan. 3, 20240221 By Harvey SorumCorrespondent Kelley and Shawn, are you natives of Fluvanna County? If not, what brought you here? Shawn was born and raised in Charlottesville, and I moved to Charlottesville in 1996. We moved to Fluvanna in the mid ‘90s to find land that we could afford for the growth of the business in the future. We also...
Elf Jr. the Musical, breaks box office records at Carysbrook
Jan. 3, 2024093 By Page H. GiffordCorrespondent For the first time in its history, Carysbrook Performing Arts Center not only sold out for a theatrical performance but because of popular demand added another performance the same day. Elf Jr. the Musical smashed box office records. The show performed by The Empowered Players, a Fluvanna-based...
Farewell, 2023!
Jan. 3, 20240123 By Heather MichonCorrespondent How do you judge a year? On the one hand, it seems like it’s been a very quiet 12 months. Mother Nature didn’t smack us too hard. The county’s budget and tax rates stayed about the same. Big, ongoing projects like the James River Water Project and the Comprehensive Plan crept forward. We’re...Kenneth C. Doll
Kenneth C. Doll, 79, of Palmyra, VA passed away on Friday, December 22, 2023 at the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Fall Church, VA. He was visiting his son's family to celebrate an early Christmas which he thoroughly enjoyed. He was born in Jersey City, NJ on July 16, 1944, a son of the late Lester Dickson Doll and Theodora Kopf...
Planning Commission denies permits to $100 million agri-tourist resort
Jan. 3, 20240650 By Heather MichonCorrespondent Plans to build a $100 million luxury agri-tourism resort on Rolling Road South ran aground at the Dec. 6 meeting of the Planning Commission, as commissioners denied the multiple special use permits needed to get the project underway. Sun Outdoors, a Michigan-based developer of resorts, marinas, and...
Bullet and Expressive journaling for mental health
Dec. 27, 20230118 By Page H. GiffordCorrespondent The arts, including writing, art, and music, and even theater arts, have proven to help those with mental health issues through self-expression and analysis. Through writing, those with PTSD, symptoms of depression, and anxiety, can redefine how they approach life by understanding themselves and their...