The Washington Town council authorizes Mayor Eugene Leggett to negotiate the terms of a nearly half-million-dollar Water Quality Improvement Fund grant from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
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Daily Archives: Jan. 14, 2010
Town gets $500K state DEQ grant
Editorial: Make the News!
You will have heard by now that this newspaper is under new ownership, and that the new owners, along with the publisher and editor, are all local, Rappahannock-based folks. This is a good thing. But the more important reality is that it’s you, our readers, who are the local folks who’ll make the most...
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Comings and Goings
Rae’s in Sperryville will be closing at the end of the month, as Thornton River Grille and the Corner Store take on former ECow owner Terri Lehman as a catering partner.
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School board reelects Mills chairman for a busy year
The Rappahannock County Board of Education, meeting for the first time in 2010 Tuesday at the high school, unanimously reelected Wes Mills as its chairman, and faces a year of tough challenges.
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Letter: Is there a mouser in the house?
The colder the weather, the more mice seem to come into my home! While I feel sorry for them and understand their desire for warmth, I do not like sharing my food with them. Nor, I must confess, do I appreciate their lack of bathroom etiquette. Can anybody help? There must be some country...
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Letter: Who made the first Senior Angel Tree Project a success? You.
This year was the initial launching of the Senior Angel Tree project in Rappahannock County, modeled after a similar successful program in Culpeper. When the trees were first set up in late November, there were 85 senior “angels” placed on three separate trees — at the Rappahannock Library, the Rappahannock National Bank, and Reynolds...
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Letter: Amissville Community Christmas gives thanks
The Amissville Area Community Christmas group delivered 22 food boxes, 50 flower bouquets and 25 fruit baskets to area residents for the 2009 holiday season. We would like to thank the many donors and the faithful who came out to assemble the boxes and baskets. With the snowfall on Dec. 19, we were worried...
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Work o’ The Weavers
“Work o’ The Weavers” played at the Theatre at Washington to such enthusiasm last year that they were invited back for a second concert here, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24. The music and the spirit of the group derives from the original pioneering folk quartet, The Weavers, created in 1948 by Pete Seeger, Lee...
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Rapp Notes
Washington's MLK Celebration, RLEP's celebrity bartenders and The Inn's Local Stimulus Package.
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Washington: First edition
The Rappahannock News first edition came out under the new owners last Thursday, and the paper really looks great! I want our readers to think of this newspaper as a positive force in our community. I want the readers never to forget that this newspaper is the living mirror of our times, and the...
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Static alacrity
A gasoline fire caused by a static spark is contained by quick-thinking customers at Washington's Quicke Mart.
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