Feb. 29, 20240254
By Heather MichonCorrespondent
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) visited Fluvanna County on Friday afternoon (Feb. 23) for a question-and-answer session with county supervisors and officials from Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Cumberland counties.
During the hour-long session at Fork Union Military Academy’s Wicker Chapel, the three-term...
Feb. 29, 20240265
By Heather MichonCorrespondent
Members of the Learning Resources Review Committee met Thursday evening (Feb. 22) at the Fluvanna County High School Library for their second meeting following the appointment of five citizen representatives at the School Board meeting on Jan. 10.
The group of 11, comprised of librarians, school...
Feb. 29, 20240355
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, 2024084
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, 2024069
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, 20240200
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, 20240124
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, 2024099
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...