Virginia’s state budget crisis is filtering down to the local level, posing threats to Rappahannock County in diverse ways ranging from school funding to plans for a new regional jail and the potential loss of popular 4H youth programs. All that became clear Monday during discussions at the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors meeting....
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Daily Archives: Mar. 4, 2010
County officials prepare for axe
Budget cuts threaten Cooperative Extension
The county’s Virginia Cooperative Extension office and associated 4H programs may have to leave town — though they won’t if the county and Rappahannock’s state delegate have their way in the coming weeks of Richmond-based budget wrangling and the local wangling that follows. The closure of eight county Extension offices and “restructuring” of another...
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May 4: the Washington town slate
Based on filings at Rappahannock County’s Board of Elections office this week, the slate for the Town of Washington’s May 4 election looks like this: Mayor John Sullivan, currently a member of the Town Council, is running unopposed. “I plan to get out and speak to every person in town, residents and businesses, and...
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At Food Pantry and throughout a full life, he is the Mann
Perhaps the struggle to survive helped shape the character of John Mann Sr., who was born in 1930 – at a time when survival was a day-to-day goal for many working-class Americans. Or it could’ve been the nine-mile round-trip hike he and his sister made to elementary school. Or the challenges of being black...
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Rapp ranks high in Va. health
Rappahannock residents are healthier than the statewide average, according to a new study called County Health Rankings, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Among Virginia’s 132 counties and cities studied, Rappahannock County ranked 20th in the social and economic factors necessary for good...
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Washington: Miller does it again at Salem tournament
Congratulations to Washington’s own Connor Miller, son of Hodge and Kay Miller and a senior at Fauquier High School, for winning his second state championship in a distinguished wrestling career — his first championship coming in 2007 for Rappahannock High School. Miller, who transferred from Rappahannock as a sophomore, managed to finish his high...
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Letter: What about our ‘Standards of Educating’ score?
“Don’t let a good crisis go to waste,” as a few entrepreneurs and politicians are fond of saying. It seems that here in Rappahannock County, we may have done just that for a few years running with respect to an ever-shrinking annual school budget. In a toxic economy, it takes big ideas to overcome...
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Column: What’s conserved, and what’s not guaranteed, by easements
There is an unfortunate downside to conservation easement donations that is not much talked about. My purpose here is not to discourage landowners from donating easements, but rather to inform them of possible negative consequences. When landowners donate a conservation easement, they give away some of their rights as landowners. Usually they give up...
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Editorial: Healthy Place
Where we live matters. That’s certainly the case when it comes to health, as reported elsewhere in the newspaper this week. But more than health, there’s soliphilia. Soliphilia? No, it’s not a typo, misprint or some other kind of spelling mistake. It’s a neologism, formed from Latin roots, meaning “the love of and responsibility...
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Sperryville: F.T. Valley Store welcomes old and new
The official celebration of Beverly Samuels’ return to running the F.T. Valley Grocery store was held on Saturday with a special “welcome back to the old timers.” Great stories were shared about the times that National Public Radio broadcast from the store, TV crews filming the famous and not so famous who visited every...
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Down Memory Lane
50 years ago March 3, 1960 After forty-three years as treasurer of Forest Grove Baptist Church at Viewtown. Mr. William A. Corbin retired on January 1, 1960. Although Mr. Corbin moved to Culpeper in 1920 where he has been associated with Yowell Hardware Co., he still holds his membership at Forest Grove and attends...
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Puccini is part of 2010 Castleton Festival
Artistic Directors Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban-Maazel announced last week that the second Castleton Festival will include a new production of Puccini’s “Il Trittico” that Maestro Maazel will conduct, his first performances of staged Puccini in the U.S. The festival will take place over four weekends at the Maazels’ Castleton Farms property from Friday...
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Hazel River deemed generally healthy
The Hazel River has been identified as one of about 30 streams in Virginia that are “exceptionally healthy.” As reported in Virginia Wildlife, the Hazel is considered “ecologically and biologically robust.” Said Greg Garman, director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), streams such as the Hazel “represent a significant...
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Universities’ dean’s list updates
Virginia Tech named the following students to the dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester: Kyle D. Dingus, Amissville, a sophomore majoring in forestry; Joshua M. Galvin, Amissville, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering; Jaclyn E. Dixon of Castleton, a freshman majoring in university studies, and Kevin J. Riedel, Washingon, a senior majoring in...
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RAWL Dogs: Daisy aka Callie
There you have it: I go by either name, Daisy or Callie. The point is I am one year old, a German Shepherd mix, about 55 pounds. There is no dog, repeat no dog, you can find who is better with kids. That said, I must warn you that if you have some of...
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If there’s training, it must be spring
The calendar dictates that winter is still a reality, but the truth is that spring has begun in Rappahannock County. Baseball, harbinger of the season, is starting up at the high school. The newest face on the RCHS men’s baseball team is its coach, Donald O’Meara. After recently completing his term as the varsity...
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RCHS March home games
Varsity Baseball March 18 7 p.m.,- E. Hardy HS March 19 7 p.m., Fredericksburg Christian School March 24 5 p.m., Highland Varsity Soccer Girls March 12 6 p.m., Eastern View March 18 5:45 p.m., WCDS March 24 5 p.m., Highland March 25 4:30 p.m., RMA March 29 6 p.m., Wakefield Varsity Soccer Boys March...
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Wakefield Sports Roundup
All-Delaney Athletic Conference Athletes Boys Basketball All-DAC Division 2: Andrew Smith, First Team and Co-Most Valuable Player; Brian Shafran, First Team Girls Basketball All-DAC Division 2: Isabelle Eastham, First Team; Sarah Wells, First Team Swimming: Madison Mulvey, 100 Yard Breaststroke and 100 Yard Freestyle WCDS Athletes of the Month January 2010 Male: Andrew Smith...
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Cub Scouts race in Derby
Cub Scouts from Rappahannock Pack 123 gathered Feb. 21 at the Washington Volunteer Fire Hall for their annual Pinewood Derby. Nearly 40 youngsters, ages 6 to 10, raced their homemade cars for fun and glory. First-, second-, and third-place winners were determined for each den, followed by a pack-wide runoff to find the four...
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RappCats: Squirt
My name is Squirt, but I would be much obliged if you’d come up with a new, more appropriate name for such a lovable charming lady. Lost and starving, rescued by my current foster parents, I so love it there and they love me, but alas I must find a new home. Please call...
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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 all calendar items we receive.) If you your event absolutely must appear in the paper, on a certain date, please call Rappahannock News advertising consultant Patti Engle at 540-878-2417. Listings must be received by...
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Meetings and Notices
On Thursday, March 4, the Rappahannock County Water and Sewer Authority meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Rappahannock County courthouse on Gay Street. On Monday, March 8, the Town of Washington’s Town Council will hold its regularly scheduled Town Council Meeting at Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. Highlights from the agenda include: updates on...
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More growers may qualify for hoop house help
Requirements for producers interested in signing up for seasonal high tunnels (hoop houses) have been changed to allow more applicants to qualify for USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service help. With the change announced last week, applicants are no longer required to install hoop houses on existing cropland. The NRCS expects more growers will qualify...
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