Fluvanna County School Superintendent Gena Keller will be requesting an additional $300,000 from the Board of Supervisors at the supervisors’ meeting on Wednesday (Oct. 17), despite being turned down last month after requesting $600,000. Some...
Who are those grey-headed folks in the high school choir? “With the opening of the high school I know there was some excitement, I’m wondering how many extra students you enrolled,” asked Superintendent Gena Keller of Fluvanna high school choir teacher Horace Scruggs. ...
The Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society recently donated a flag pole to Effort Christian School and Preschool and erected it on the grounds of Effort Baptist Church. Woodmen of the World, founded in 1890, is a not-for-profit organization that presents U.S. flags to nonprofit civic and youth groups, schools, churches, community...
Since I am recovering from surgery and have a considerable amount of pain- relieving medications in my system, I was sure when I read Joe Shaver’s letter to the editor on Sept. 27 that the drugs had affected my comprehension, because most certainly no one would write such an obviously class-envious piece of tripe as this appeared to...
It’s certainly not uncommon so close to the election to read comments/opinions that leave you scratching your head. However, in the Sept. 27 issue of the Fluvanna Review I think that I read the most utterly nonsensical opinion piece that I can recall. A gentleman had selectively hand-picked two properties containing Romney/Ryan signs,...
Although many of us in Fluvanna County specifically in Lake Monticello are retired, I know of no one who wants to deprive a child of a proper education. Many of us came down here to escape high taxes. What we do want is fiscal responsibility and we think that Charles Rittenhouse who is a candidate for the School Board from the Cunningham...
Very infrequently do voters have an opportunity to elect a person to public office who is not only fully qualified for the position he is seeking but also has already been serving in that position. Bill Hughes, the current member of the Fluvanna School Board from the Cunningham District, is just such a man. I will be supporting his...
Let’s look at what’s really going on in America. We have more than thirty years of expanding unsecured debt, all on the part of the greater middle class (poor people aren’t allowed debt, rich people don’t need it). This unsecured debt started with credit cards, expanded into loans for education, and then ballooned into multiple...
General John Douglass, candidate for Congress from the 5th district, is an exceptional person and has served our country well. He is a retired Air Force brigadier general and was the second highest ranking general in NATO. He served in both the Reagan and Clinton White House, and had an especially close relationship with President...
