Fluco girls’ lacrosse team falls to E.C. Glass 18-8 In their second game of the season the Fluco girls’ lacrosse team got a seven goal performance from junior midfielder Clay Conner, but the Hilltoppers of E. C. Glass High School from Lynchburg, were too experienced for the young Flucos. ...
Aqua Virginia now in compliance with environmental regulations The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has terminated a consent order Aqua Virginia Inc. had been operating under since purchasing the Lake Monticello wastewater system in Fluvanna County in 2003, the company announced Thursday (March 21). The state issued the...
Supervisors, citizens, school board at odds over budget Over twenty citizens spoke for an hour at Wednesday night’s (March 20) Board of Supervisors meeting, urging the supervisors to set the advertised tax rate at 81.4 cents in order to better fund the school system. Instead, murmurs filled the room as supervisors voted 5-0 to...
On March 13 the School Board adopted the superintendent’s FY14 school budget proposal of $14.1 million. This was based on similar estimates shared with the Board of Supervisors during the December and February joint working sessions. During those sessions, the supervisors had no questions or concerns regarding the figures shared,...
Developers plan to call the project Walker’s Ridge. They probably ought to call it Taxpayers’ Nightmare.Plans call for almost 1,200 residences on roughly 200 acres next to Camp Friendship on Highway 15. Most of the residences will be apartments with a few townhouses and single-family homes sprinkled in. They’ll hunker around a tiny...
Recently, a little-known local nonprofit completed ten years of data gathering. This is not the kind of achievement that makes headlines, but maybe it should.The group, StreamWatch, collects water quality data from streams and rivers in our back yard. Thanks to the work of hundreds of volunteers and a dedicated staff, StreamWatch has...
Louisa offers to pay for water pipeline It only took 24 minutes for Fluvanna and the Louisa board of supervisors to hash out a proposal – still in its early stages – that would bring water to Zion Crossroads.
Fluvanna County Public Schools restructures administrative team Administrative positions in the Fluvanna County school system were restructured due to an impending budget shortfall, according to a press release. A total of four administrative positions have been eliminated; two building-level positions and two school board office...
