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The week's headlines: Board works on reducing tax rise to 4 cents || Bond revoked, murder suspect re-hospitalized || At Castleton, it’s homes away from home || The Rapp for May 23 || Rappahannock Park, ramped up and ready || Editorial: The sound you hear, the food you eat || Massie’s goal in Madison...
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Where do the talented Castleton Festival performers stay when they're not on stage? Either at one of Castleton Farm’s own properties or the permanent home of generous locals, who routinely open their guest rooms and cottages for up to six weeks to welcome in relative strangers.
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Our monthly Fourth (Estate) Friday meeting, Coterie and Narmada's weekend offerings, acoustic guitarist Laurence Juber's return to the Theatre, Middle Street Gallery opens its "Beauty Around Us" exhibit and RAAC's opening casting call for all area women for "Love, Loss and What I Wore" in this week's Rapp column.
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How best to describe that sound now bringing the Rappahannock hills alive? Humming? Droning? Whirring? Buzzing? Whining? It's not Congress arguing over the farm bill but the sound of something more in the natural rhythm of things: The Brood II cicadas, which emerge from their underground hermitage every 17 years to propagate.
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Rappahannock County High School’s varsity girls soccer players made history in Monday night’s (May 20) Bull Run District quarterfinals match when they defeated Madison County, 1-0, in a hard-fought battle on the Mountaineers’ own field.
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After the supervisors trimmed about $146,000 from the proposed 2013-2014 school budget earlier last week, the Rappahannock County School Board decided in a work session Thursday night (May 9) to at least leave intact a 3-percent salary increase for teachers and staff, while eyeing a way to replace 10 of the school's aging buses.
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At its monthly meeting Monday (May 13) the Washington Town Council agreed to support RappFLOW’s cleanup project at Avon Hall, filled a vacancy on the Architectural Review Board and considered allowing bed and breakfasts to serve dinner to non-boarders.
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Whatever term you use – the law-enforcement phrase “lockdown” or the school superintendent’s preferred “shelter in place” – both of Rappahannock County’s schools were in the middle of it for about 30 minutes two weeks ago.
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Rappahannock's annual Relay for Life this weekend, "Uncle Vanya" takes the stage at the RAAC Theatre, Canadian pianist Audrey Andrist returns to the Theatre at Washington, the Public House is throwing its first summer festival, R.H. Ballard is honored in a reader's poll and Spicy Plum Chutney makes waves in this week's Rapp column.
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The temperature has gone wildly up and down the past week or so in Rappahannock County – the subject of much local conversation, though par for the course for a Virginia springtime. Meanwhile, another measurement reached a record high a few days ago but went largely unnoticed, much less remarked upon.
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All 35 Virginia State Parks will host special programs and events Saturday, June 8, as part of the fifth...
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Rappahannock County High School's varsity girls soccer team came away with a 1-0 win at Madison County in the...
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About 12 years ago, Michael Maupin lost his right to vote in Virginia because of a felony drug conviction....
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The Virginia Parole Board last year granted parole in less than 4 percent of the cases it considered. Even...
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Human trafficking survivors and support groups are speaking out and working with state legislators to combat the problem of...
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This week's RAWL dog is a lost senior lab. If you know him, please help return him to his...
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A few dozen fab photos by Luke Christopher of the hat contest and crowds at last Saturday's Gold Cup...
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Virginia’s suicide rate is the highest it’s been in 13 years, according to the state’s chief medical examiner. Experts...
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An ominous “MLK Day plot.” A proposed overhaul of the Electoral College system. Voter ID legislation. Those are issues...
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No General Assembly session is without its ups and downs, quarrels and disputes. However, the 2013 session may have...
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Check out restaurant reviewer (and longtime Rappahannock weekender) Walter Nicholls' amiable and informed hike though Sperryville's hotspots in the...
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To say that “every budget can be cut” misses a grand point. The question is not whether or not...
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Cold spring or not, the reproduction cycle continues up here on the mountain. All...
The eastern whip-poor-will’s haunting, insistent repetition of its name has been iconic of spring...
For pam Owen, one of the best things about summer is seeing the little...
The answer to “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could...
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