At their monthly meeting on Friday, Fluvanna Art Association members gathered for fellow artist Betty Scholl, who demonstrated how she approaches and creates abstract art. Scholl’s work has been in a few of the FAA shows and garnered many positive...
Learning to ride a horse English style can be a very rigid discipline and those who begin at a young age to learn to ride a horse, often accelerate into the show level, most learning to jump and some even make it onto the Olympic equestrian team. But for those who learn at Sugar Maple Farm, show jumping or the Olympics is not their goal...
Tenaska Virginia Partners, L.P., owner of the Tenaska Virginia Generating Station near Scottsville recently awarded a total of $4,000 in college scholarships to four Fluvanna County High School seniors. These Fluvanna County High School seniors, all of Palmyra, were named scholarship recipients:
Thirty teams of two players each competed in five flights in the men’s member-guest tournament at the Lake Monticello golf course on Saturday and Sunday June 2 and 3. The Grand Champions for gross score were: Jim Darlington and Richard Condrey. They scored an impressive 34½ points out of 50, playing in the number one flight of teams...
The highlight at the school board meeting held on Wednesday (June 13) was a discussion about the budget shortfall of $539,545 for 2013. Finance Director Ed Breslauer said, “Supplemental budget appropriation for fiscal year 2013 in the amount of $650,000 would raise the total appropriation for fiscal year 2013 to $34,318,540. However,...
Here is the fourth question in a slanted telephone poll, funded by Fluvanna United, and conducted by a Richmond firm on May 31: “In reaction to budget cuts, some members of the school board refused to open a new high school, while online comments on Facebook called members of the board of supervisors racist for cutting the school...
Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors passed its 2012-2013 budget with an unanticipated turn of the tables. In one motion to rescind the advertised tax rate of 68 cents, the Fluvanna County School Board and administrators witnessed an annihilation of months of budget planning, resulting in massive cuts directly impacting the education of...
While visiting Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg Thursday, Governor Bob McDonnell today ceremonially signed nine bills that streamline or eliminate burdensome state mandates on local governments, according, according to a press release from the governor’s office. The bills sprung from the creation of the Governor’s Task...
The fervor over education funding in Fluvanna County will not die. It began over a month ago when the Fluvanna Board of Supervisors voted on a lower than expected tax rate, cutting the school board operating budget by $1.4 million. But just when protests and angry Facebook posts were starting to dwindle, the debate was reignited two...
