Defunct farms have more options with land use

PALMYRA — The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the creation of two special use permit categories at its last meeting on July 21. The new special use permits allow property owners to request their land be zoned to have a cemetery or commercial campground. The addition of the two classifications is directed to help owners [...]

Uniforms not the goal of more defined dress code

PALMYRA — Despite additional definitions in Fluvanna County High School’s dress code, school administration does not advocate a school uniform. The dress code is more defined for 2010 than it has ever been. The move stops vagueness and bias to different body types. The additional definitions lengthens the possible size of bottom coverings, stops waistlines [...]

FCHS dress code becomes ‘more defined’

PALMYRA — Fluvanna County High School students can buy school supplies and new clothes, tax free during Aug. 6-8. School administration hopes the new clothes will cover a little more skin than what has been seen in years past. “The dress code is not stricter. The dress code is more defined,” FCHS principal James Barlow [...]

It’s all about community with new superintendent

PALMYRA — Fresh off of being announced as the new superintendent, Gena Keller is all ready to step into Fluvanna County Public Schools. “I was ecstatic [to be hired] because I think the coolest thing is just to realize the positive ripple effect for our society. When you have children who love school, who love [...]

Keller to take over of Fluvanna Schools

PALMYRA — The Fluvanna School Board has named Gena Keller superintendent of Fluvanna County Public Schools. Keller will be officially introduced at Fluvanna County High School during the school system staff convocation on August 2. She will begin work on August 1. This ends a search for a new superintendent that began in February when [...]

Citizens, special interest groups dissent CWC recommendation

PALMYRA — A recommendation from the Citizens’ Water Committee was not met with favorable fanfare with citizens and local special interest groups. “You’ve got land. You’ve got a water source. You don’t have to go with your hat in your hand to Louisa,” Alan Muoio told the Board of Supervisors. The CWC recommended a joint [...]

Citizens’ Water Committee recommends plans

PALMYRA — The Citizens’ Water Committee recommended three plans, in priority order, to the Fluvanna Board of Supervisors Wednesday night. The top recommendations was an Aqua Virginia plan where Louisa and Fluvanna split debt service per year based on usage. The second plan was a raw water line where Louisa and Fluvanna split debt service [...]

Superintendent field set

PALMYRA — The Fluvanna School Board has a field of 14 in the search for a new superintendent. Most of the applicants come from Virginia but there are one each from Pennsylvania, California, Georgia and Maine. The search for the highest position in the school system is conducted with the help of the Virginia School [...]

School construction woes won’t delay opening

PRESS RELEASE — The Fluvanna County School Board heard from the high school construction team Wednesday night regarding water retention tank failures at the site. At the board’s request representatives from BCWH (the architectural firm), the Timmons Group (the engineering firm), Nielsen Builders (the general contractor), and Jackie L. Massie Contractor (the sub-contractor) were present [...]

We are back and we are better than ever

We are proud to announce we are back, a little wiser and a lot excited. In this time frame we have noticed that our current model has to be downsized a little. We could not proceed at the rate we were without investing tremendous resources and completing changing our values, model and goals. The reason [...]

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