| Today | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|
 Thunderstorm 81°/59° |  Rain Showers 77°/55° | Partly Cloudy 81°/59° |
This week's headlines include: Caretaker pleads guilty, bond revoked || Local races uncontested this fall || The Rapp for June 13 || The pasture-powered network || Town weighs menu for B&B dinners || Editorial: It’s about time || and more . . .
Read More »
By Tuesday night’s deadline, the Rappahannock County Registrar of Voters had received petitions for just one candidate for each of the supervisor and school board positions up for grabs this November.
Read More »
Get into SNP for free this weekend, sign up for summer camps, meet the director of "Copperhead," attend a bee forum and learn how valuable those busy little insects are, audition for RAAC's new play and join the First Friday festivities at Laurel Mills in this week's Rapp column.
Read More »
Fifty years . . . a half century . . . that’s a long time! Any half-century anniversary – marking the passage of such a big chunk of time – sparks big questions, even for once-inattentive high school history students.
Read More »
After working quickly through a final round of $158,747 in cuts, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors approved a $22.24 million budget for 2013-2014 at their monthly meeting Monday afternoon (June 3).
Read More »
Rappahannock County’s recycling options will be expanding shortly, as the board of supervisors approved a decision to continue and grow the county’s partnership with Updike Industries at its meeting Monday afternoon (June 3).
Read More »
Washington’s newest addition isn’t another restaurant or bed and breakfast. Instead, it’s the first of its kind within the town’s borders – the Little Washington Wellness & Spa.
Read More »
The many "to-do" options available this weekend, when and where to admire the Castleton Artists in Training (for free), checking in with the award-winning Knights of Columbus council at St. Peter's, and what to do on SNP's Neighbor's Day (June 18) in this week's Rapp column.
Read More »
Tammy Lynn Atkins, the Washington woman hired to care for an ailing former mayor of Washington in 2011, pleaded...
Read More »
Shenandoah National Park and the SNP Association are host two special programs June 8 and 15 featuring renowned authors...
Read More »
The number of home-schoolers in Virginia has increased by more than 50 percent over the past decade, to more...
Read More »
Return of the Cicadas from motionkicker on Vimeo.
Indiana-based filmmaker Samuel Orr has been working an a one-hour documentary on cicadas since 2007, shooting more than 600 hours of footage of the creatures that are now filling trees (and ears) throughout most of Rappahannock County. This astonishingly beautiful seven-minute short, meant to highlight Orr’s Kickstarter fundraising effort for the film, may actually bring tears to your eyes. Definitely watch it full-screen if you can.
All 35 Virginia State Parks will host special programs and events Saturday, June 8, as part of the fifth...
Read More »
Rappahannock County High School's varsity girls soccer team came away with a 1-0 win at Madison County in the...
Read More »
About 12 years ago, Michael Maupin lost his right to vote in Virginia because of a felony drug conviction....
Read More »
The Virginia Parole Board last year granted parole in less than 4 percent of the cases it considered. Even...
Read More »
Human trafficking survivors and support groups are speaking out and working with state legislators to combat the problem of...
Read More »
This week's RAWL dog is a lost senior lab. If you know him, please help return him to his...
Read More »
As Pan Owen readily admits (repeatedly), she's not an expert at identifying animals, and...
It’s that time of year, when young things graduate to go on to the...
Pam Owen first heard reports of one or two appearing of them here and...
Cold spring or not, the reproduction cycle continues up here on the mountain. All...
Follow Us