Residents of Lake Monticello and members of the Gray Foxes golf league said goodbye to their long-time friend and advocate, Emil Colmenares, 99, and observed a final tribute to his fourth wife, Margaret, on Saturday (March 11) at the Lake Monticello...
This week the Flucos are in action! As usual, there is a lot happening in the spring. More student athletes are in action in the spring than in any other season.On Monday (March 13) the boys’ and girls’ soccer teams opened their seasons. The boys hosted Powhatan, while the girls traveled to the Richmond suburbs to take on the same...
Where do you live? I live at Lake Monticello. Have you always lived in Fluvanna? If not, what brought you here?No, I have not always lived in Fluvanna. I was born at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y., and lived on Long Island for my first year. My grandparents, Tim and Eileen Monahan, moved to Lake Monticello in 1990, and...
Time flew by for the Lake Monticello Wildlife Committee since setting up bluebird houses around the Lake. It has been two years since they proposed and implemented a plan to bring back bluebirds by setting up nesting areas. Spring begins on March 20, and this is the time bluebirds start building their nests. Jim Haney, a volunteer with...
Joseph J. Delmonte, a.k.a. “JD Esquire,” 78, of Lake Monticello, passed away at 9:25 p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2017, after a long illness.He was born on March 27, 1938, in Queens, N.Y., a son of the late Joseph John Delmonte and Anne (Gross) Delmonte.Joe spent most of his career as a sales manager for ABD Food Sales, a food brokerage...
Donald Martin Wheeler was born Sept. 16, 1933, in South Africa and went to be with the Lord on March 7, 2017.He lived a full life. He served on the Rhodesian border as a soldier and owned a 30-foot yacht in which he traveled up and down the Mozambique border teaching sailing and adventure to tourists. He was also a pilot, banker, real...
Editor’s note: Fork Union Military Academy submitted a photo to the Fluvanna Review that identified Cadet Alex Thomas as a bugler.Trumpet, not bugleThe March 2 photo of the week shows a cadet playing the trumpet, not the bugle. You can’t play the national anthem on a bugle.As a World War II Navy bugler I played a plastic bugle...
The Lake Monticello Golf Course is gearing up for a busy 2017.Golf contracts at the Lake course run from March 1 to the end of February, so the 2017 season is just under way. PGA golf pro Mark Marshall said that due the mild nature of the winter so far, there has been a high level of play on the course in January and February.Now that...
Wendy Charlton, a former Fluvanna County High School teacher who now works in grants administration at the University of Virginia, has an unusual hobby: tapestry weaving.Tapestry weavers are artists, Charlton said, who are separate from weavers who make utilitarian objects like rugs or scarves. “Tapestry weavers make the kind of art...
