• School board has candidate

    School board has candidate

    The Rappahannock County school board has apparently settled on a final candidate to replace retiring Superintendent Robert Chappell, but isn’t...
  • Town sewer could be up by April

    Town sewer could be up by April

    Gentlemen (and ladies), start your plumbers. If this week’s initial state-required five-day test goes well, and it doesn’t seriously snow or...
  • Hackley’s break-in brings jail time

    Hackley’s break-in brings jail time

    A Rappahannock Circuit Court grand jury voted to indict a number of defendants this week on various drug-related, assault and...
  • HS intern learning more than teaching

    HS intern learning more than teaching

    Sam Dunlap is the freshest face in Dave Naser’s chemistry classroom at Rappahannock County High School, but he’s not exactly...
  • Parkhurst’s many lives meet at Triple Oak Bakery

    Parkhurst’s many lives meet at Triple Oak Bakery

    If you want to experience a fundamental Rappahannock County moment, ring up Triple Oak Bakery, reserve a slice of Mocha...
  • Editorial: Count us in

    Editorial: Count us in

    It’s time for Rappahannock residents to be counted. In the next week or so, a packet from the U.S. Census...
  • Letter: Easements can protect farms

    Letter: Easements can protect farms

    In last week’s Rappahannock News, Mike Massie suggested conservation easements could bring an end to farming and hunting in Rappahannock...
  • Letter: Easements <em>can</em> adjust to uncertain futures

    Letter: Easements can adjust to uncertain futures

    I don’t know what prompted Mike Massie’s op-ed diatribe about conservation easements in your March 4 issue. But I do...
  • Letter: Um, who’s healthier again?

    Letter: Um, who’s healthier again?

    Ya gotta love Ivory Tower social planners and government bureaucracies! In your story on Virginia health [March 4, Rapp ranks...
  • Letter: A caring community saved my life

    Letter: A caring community saved my life

    Perhaps only few of us in Rappahannock County realize how fortunate we are to live in such a caring community...
  • Students read ‘Across America’ — and up the road

    Students read ‘Across America’ — and up the road

    Every year on March 2, the National Education Association challenges schools across the nation to “Read Across America.” This challenge...
  • Chester Gap: Fire department hits 50

    Chester Gap: Fire department hits 50

    The Chester Gap Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department will be not only hosting its annual awards banquet this March 27...
  • Washington: Ice House turns one, warmly

    Washington: Ice House turns one, warmly

    Last Sunday, Linda Lawler Portrait Studio at the Ice House Gallery celebrated its first anniversary. The gallery officially opened on...
  • Sperryville: Miss Rapp now includes Ms., more

    Sperryville: Miss Rapp now includes Ms., more

    Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 17 at 3 p.m. for the Miss Rappahannock Pageant at the elementary school, where...
  • Middle Street celebrates regional artists

    Middle Street celebrates regional artists

    Rappahannock County native Jacob Stilley won first place Saturday in a regional art competition at The Middle Street Gallery in...
  • Artist’s newest work is simply bovine

    Artist’s newest work is simply bovine

    Noted realist painter Drew Ernst arrived at Sperryville’s Long View Gallery in late February and is now painting a life-sized...
  • Sperryville youth headed to Angus show

    Sperryville youth headed to Angus show

    Courtney Logan Pooton of Sperryville is one of 203 young people from 10 states who will exhibit Angus cattle at...
  • School News: Hearthstone’s $50K challenge

    School News: Hearthstone’s $50K challenge

    Special to the Rappahannock News A “Double the Dollars” fund-raising opportunity has been given to Hearthstone School by an anonymous donor....
  • Calendar: Rapp Happenings

    Calendar: Rapp Happenings

    The Rapp Happenings section lists events, generally in Rappahannock County, on a space-available basis. (The rappnews.com web site always lists...
  • Down Memory Lane

    Down Memory Lane

    50 years ago March 10, 1960 At the annual meeting of the Culpeper Memorial Hospital, Inc., on February 5, 1960 at the...
  • Cantor’s representative at library April 22

    Cantor’s representative at library April 22

    A staff representative from Rep. Eric Cantor’s congressional office will be available to discuss constituent concerns from 2 to 4...
  • Home and land transfers

    Home and land transfers

    These Rappahannock County home and land transfers were recorded in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Clerk’s office between Feb. 26...
  • RAWL Dogs: Brinks

    RAWL Dogs: Brinks

    You can take me home and teach me all sorts of tricks. That’s because I’m not even three months old...
  • Smithsonian spring lectures begin March 31

    Smithsonian spring lectures begin March 31

    Special to the Rappahannock News The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal has released its schedule of free lectures...
  • Meetings and Notices

    Meetings and Notices

    Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services Board and Area Agency on Aging transportation services will not operate this Friday in observance of...