Hugh Klein (HK) Staiger of Palmyra, VA departed this life peacefully on June 9, 2022. He was born October 8, 1922 in Crafton, PA, the first son of Daniel Staiger and Juliana Flora Klein. Hugh frequently commented that in his younger life, during the Great Depression, he didn’t know that the family was poor since everybody was poor. He...
Jun. 15, 202201250By Heather Michon
Correspondent
By the end of 2022, all signs of the 90-year-old Bremo Power Station should be gone.
The Fluvanna Planning Commission heard a presentation on the demolition project during their meeting on Tuesday night (June 7).
Dominion representative Sarah Marshall said the demolition of the main...
Jun. 15, 20220282By Page H. Gifford
Correspondent
On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the first Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, establishing Juneteenth as a national holiday.
“Now that it is a federal holiday, it has opened up for people to learn why this is an important celebration. Fluvanna is beginning to talk about a...
Jun. 15, 20220140By Duncan Nixon
Correspondent
The Fluco girls soccer team hosted a quarter final match in the State Class 3 tournament on June 7. Fluco Coach Kat Hinkle said that this is the first time a Fluco soccer team has ever made it into the state tournament. The Flucos took on the Cavaliers from Lord Botetourt High School in Daleville. It was...
Jun. 15, 20220255By Ruthann Carr
Correspondent
School’s out for the summer and it shows. The school board meeting on Thurs. (June 9) was quiet and procedural.
Instead of fire-breathing residents threatening school board members or a room packed full of people shouting their dissent, the seats were all but empty. There were no...
Jun. 15, 20220537Comprehensive Plan evolves
By Heather Michon
Correspondent
More than two dozen residents attended an open house at the Fluvanna Public Library on Thursday night (June 9) to learn more about the development of the county’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan.
This was the final of four open houses sponsored by the county to give the...
Jun. 8, 202201388Sandy Hill slave quarters linked to present day descendants
Contributed by Tricia Johnson
Correspondent
Nadine Armstrong looked up from her laptop. “You know there’s a slave house just down the road.” Armstrong, fellow community historian Melissa Hill, and I, the director of the Fluvanna Historical Society, were at their...