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Fluvanna Welcomes New Teachers Garrett and PAGE 10 Dittmar Campaign in County PAGES 6 & 8 New Laws Crack Down On Stalking, Guns PAGE 12 Fluvanna Review Names New Editor New Winery PAGE 4 Opens for Business PAGE 25 August 4 - 10 , 2016 • Volume 36, Issue 31 IINSIDENSIDE Letters to the Editor................... 4 FOUNDED IN 1979 BY LEN GARDNER Crime Log ................................... 5 www.fl uvannareview.com Puzzles ......................................22 Publisher: Carlos Santos 434-207-0224 / carlos@fl uvannareview.com Calendar ...................................14 Editor: Christina Dimeo 434-207-0224 / editor@fl uvannareview.com Classifi eds.................................15 Advertising/Copy Editor: Jacki Harris Cover: New teachers join staff. 434-207-0222 / sales@fl uvannareview.com Photo by Tricia Johnson Accounts/Classifi ed Ads Manager: Edee Povol 434-207 0221 / edee@fl uvannareview.com Cover design by Tracy Federico and Lisa Hurdle Advertising Designer: Lisa Hurdle 434-207-0229 / lisa@fl uvannareview.com Editorial Designer: Tracy Federico Quote of the week: Designer: Marilyn Ellinger “I am genuinely excited about the Staff Writers: Page Gifford, Duncan Nixon, Tricia Johnson and Ruthann Carr new teachers and staff we have Photographers: Lisa Hurdle brought to Fluvanna. 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We reserve the right to edit submissions and cannot (434)-589-3958 FFindind YourYo guarantee they will be published. Keep calendar submissions [email protected] RRentalental HHere!ere! to 50 words or less. E-mail: editor@fl uvannareview.com or mail to: Fluvanna Review, P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, VA 22963. 2 | FLUVANNA REVIEW | August 4, 2016 To advertise email: sales@fl uvannareview.com To advertise call: 434.207.0222 August 4, 2016 | FLUVANNA REVIEW | 3 Shopping Authorized Shipping Center Online? Christina Dimeo named Have Returns? We Pack We Ship Fluvanna Review editor Everything Anywhere Christina Dimeo was named the editor of the Fluvanna Review on Aug. 1. She has 434-589-9602 been a reporter with the paper for three Fax: 434-589-9603 and a half years and has covered the Flu- We have Prepaid www.mailboxexpresspalmyrava.com vanna County Board of Supervisors, poli- Drop Off for UPS Mon.-Fri. 9-6 • Sat.10-2 tics, and police beats. She will continue to cover the supervisors’ beat. Email: [email protected] and FEDEX Dimeo, 34, lives at Lake Monticello 265 Turkeysag Trail, #102 with her three children, who attend the Let Us Make Your Palmyra, VA. county’s public schools. Prepaid DROPOFFS Near Lake Monticello on Rt 53 She replaces Carlos Santos, who took Easy! over as publisher and editor of the paper Signs Laminating in 2010. Santos will remain publisher. vate Banners Document Need a PPrivateri “Christina has covered county news ilbox Custom Shredding thoroughly and with fairness and accu- Mailbox MMailboxa Calendars Notary Public racy,” said Santos. “She’ll bring the same in RRentalsentals CanvasC Portraits Full / Self Serve skills to her new job. I’m pleased to have Palmyra? Art Prints Copying her on board as editor.” PhotoP Packages (black & Copying white/color) SALE Blueprints, Large Format On All New Large and Prints, etc. Professional other words, there is no potential wind- Medium Size Boxes, Includes Mailbox Rentals Packing fall in tax revenue for Mr. O’Brien’s popu- 100 Free Color Copies 1 Year Contract Required Faxing Specialty Boxes list agenda from this source. Similar protections exist for conserva- tion easement properties under Virginia Code §10.1-1011, section B. Land value “shall be based only on uses...permit- ted under the terms of the easement It’s a quixotic obsession and shall not include any value attribut- able to the uses or potential uses ...that I can surely sympathize with the ma- have been terminated by the easement.” jority of the Board of Supervisors regard- Again, there is no potential windfall in ENJOY GREAT FOOD, DRINKS AND FRIENDS AT THE GOLF COURSE ing Supervisor Tony O’Brien’s often quix- tax revenue from these properties should otic obsession with land use taxation. Fluvanna do away with land use taxation. All Sunday-Thursday: Some facts: per the county’s compre- 8:00 am - 7:00 pm Finally, all those large timber parcels Welcomedlcomed hensive plan, at last count, Fluvanna has that Mr. O’Brien has cast his eye on are Fri & Saturday: more than 31,000 acres in either forest- ultimately subject to the Virginia Forest 8:00 am - 9:00 pm agricultural districts or under permanent Products tax, Virginia Code §58.1, conservation easement. That is nearly Chapter 16. This tax is collected at the 50 square miles of land and encompass- mill, processing facility or port of embar- es the vast majority of the “large estates” kation (if sent out of state) and is paid into Breakfast that Mr. O’Brien claims are somehow the Commonwealth’s general treasury. atat LakeLake Everyday “subsidized” by the local taxpayer. Since the Commonwealth has reserved Per Code of Virginia §58.1-3231 (Taxa- the right to tax forest products to itself, Monticello 8am to 11am tion, Chapter 32, Real Property tax): Take out the county has no potential tax windfall Land in forest/ag districts “shall be eligi- from this source either. available ble for the use valuation and assessment Mike Lawson, whether or not a local land use plan or Troy local ordinance...has been adopted.” In Our customers told us what they wanted and we listened! - Our new Menu and Burger board now being We Do served. Plumbing and - Expanded sandwich, salad and entree selectionn Electrical - Off ering 1/2 Sandwich and soup or salad Work! combination. - Plus our popular Haddock fi sh fry and Buff aloo chicken wings.