In the past few years, rumors have circulated that Fluvanna County Public Schools had provided students with their own laptops and iPods. Those rumors are false. But Fluvanna County High School has found a limited, cost-effective way to help expose...
Annette Daly said she loves all things beautiful and that is what has drawn her to becoming a wardrobe consultant. Daly utilizes Skype, Facebook, blogs and DVD’s to reach her audience. Daly spoke about what made her decide to pursue this particular business and why she has such passion for it. ...
Five Lake Monticello families are ready to open their doors to share their holiday traditions during the 24th Annual Holiday House Tour, Saturday (Dec. 8).Open this year are the West home, 30 Seminole Trail; the Seehaver home, 40A Marwood Drive; the Williams home, 9 Adrian Road; the Stenger home, 23 Whippoorwill Lane; and the LaRosa...
Mike Hartling will not renew his lease on the Eagles Nest restaurant when it expires at the end of January, according to the Lake Monticello Owners’ Association.
The overall theme of the Board of Supervisors meeting Wed. (Nov. 7) seemed to be getting Fluvanna County’s house in order. The Board heard reports on debt service, obsolete committees, reassessment and county vehicles. Supervisors took action on several issues.
The new high school auditorium felt especially cavernous as the amplified voices of parents and teachers bounced off the walls. Public comment lasted over an hour and a half, all people offering their voices as to how the Fluvanna County school board could recoup $308,173 of unanticipated expenditures on operating the new high school...
Sometimes when I observe Mitt Romney, I am reminded of T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”. There seems to be no “there” there. He seems to be repeating what someone has told him to say: he has been filled with words delivered without any substantive presence. (Indeed, we know that he can utter two contradictory beliefs within...
Well, from what I have read in the newspapers and watched on TV it seems that whenever Fluvanna has a budget problem the teachers come to the rescue. Not enough money to open the new high school, no problem, cut teachers pay and give them furlough days.
Oh the things we do when we think no one is looking; like excavating our nasal passages while sitting in traffic or neglecting to scoop our pooch’s poop. The latter, while certainly fouling someone’s shoes, fouls our water here and downstream, whether carried now by raucous storms or later by gentle rains.
