The Rappahannock County school board has apparently settled on a final candidate to replace retiring Superintendent Robert Chappell, but isn’t saying who it is. “We can’t,” said Chairman J. Wesley Mills, asked if he could identify the candidate after Tuesday’s monthly Board of Education meeting at the high school. “We are still negotiating.” Pressed...
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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 flood in the interim, the Town of Washington’s $4 million wastewater collection and treatment system could be up and running by early April. That was the news from the Washington Town Council’s regular...
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A Rappahannock Circuit Court grand jury voted to indict a number of defendants this week on various drug-related, assault and firearms charges. Also on Monday, Circuit Court Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. sentenced — among others — two of three persons found guilty of breaking and entering Hackley’s Store in Amissville last May. Dennis...
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Sam Dunlap is the freshest face in Dave Naser’s chemistry classroom at Rappahannock County High School, but he’s not exactly a new student. Dunlap, a student at Lord Fairfax Community College in Warrenton, is enrolled in LFCC’s Introduction to Teaching as a Profession, a course that requires real-world experience — which makes him an...
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If you want to experience a fundamental Rappahannock County moment, ring up Triple Oak Bakery, reserve a slice of Mocha Dream cake and drive through Sperryville to visit with pastry chef Brooke Parkhurst in her tidy, sunlight-filled kitchen. Then chat with her about building a straw bale house, or about playing the banjo for...
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It’s time for Rappahannock residents to be counted. In the next week or so, a packet from the U.S. Census Bureau will land in each of our mailboxes, marking the start of another once-a-decade quest for demographic information. As is the case every time these surveys roll out, there will be a good deal...
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In last week’s Rappahannock News, Mike Massie suggested conservation easements could bring an end to farming and hunting in Rappahannock . The article raised some interesting points, but there are many benefits of conservation easements that were not mentioned and I would like to point...
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I don’t know what prompted Mike Massie’s op-ed diatribe about conservation easements in your March 4 issue. But I do know that I wish you had chosen to run a parallel piece from a different point of view. Perhaps this letter will help. My wife and I are easement donors. I have given serious...
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Ya gotta love Ivory Tower social planners and government bureaucracies! In your story on Virginia health : “Oddly enough, the county also ranked low — 97th — in the way the study measured the physical environment as a health factor, due apparently to the lack of supermarkets...
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Perhaps only few of us in Rappahannock County realize how fortunate we are to live in such a caring community where people spare no effort to rush to the rescue of a neighbor when a medical emergency strikes. Early in the morning of Feb. 9, I woke up with a horrendous, sweat-inducing chest pain...
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Every year on March 2, the National Education Association challenges schools across the nation to “Read Across America.” This challenge program asks that every child stop and enjoy reading a book as part of a birthday celebration for Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, author of more than 60 children’s books, including...
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The Chester Gap Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department will be not only hosting its annual awards banquet this March 27 with a fellowship hour at 6 and dinner at 7, but will also be celebrating the department’s 50th anniversary. Chester Gap Fire and Rescue was established March 13, 1960 by several local gentlemen who...
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Last Sunday, Linda Lawler Portrait Studio at the Ice House Gallery celebrated its first anniversary. The gallery officially opened on Valentines Day 2009, but this February’s blizzards forced Lawler to delay the celebration. The gallery served Italian prosecco, strawberries and chocolates to Lawler’s invited guests, clients and friends. When asked why she chose to...
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Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 17 at 3 p.m. for the Miss Rappahannock Pageant at the elementary school, where a new category — “Ms. Rappahannock” — will be open to all ladies 20 and older. Last year the pageant organizers at Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad heard many requests that such a category be...
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Rappahannock County native Jacob Stilley won first place Saturday in a regional art competition at The Middle Street Gallery in Washington. The gallery’s Regional Showcase, drawing from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and the District, featured the works of 13 artists deemed excellent by artist juror Jane Livingston. Second place went to Martin Levine of...
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Noted realist painter Drew Ernst arrived at Sperryville’s Long View Gallery in late February and is now painting a life-sized Angus cow in the gallery. “At seven by eight feet it will be the largest painting ever presented in the gallery, and as Ernst’s work is of the first order, it also promises to...
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Courtney Logan Pooton of Sperryville is one of 203 young people from 10 states who will exhibit Angus cattle at the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Junior Angus Classic (MAJAC) Regional Preview Junior Angus Show in Harrisonburg this Friday and Saturday. The MAJAC Show, with judging of bred-and-owned heifers and bulls, owned heifers and bulls, owned heifers,...
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Special to the Rappahannock News A “Double the Dollars” fund-raising opportunity has been given to Hearthstone School by an anonymous donor. The donor to the Waldorf-inspired school has offered to match up to $50,000 in donations by others. For every dollar the Sperryville school receives for the remainder of this school year, Hearthstone will...
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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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50 years ago March 10, 1960 At the annual meeting of the Culpeper Memorial Hospital, Inc., on February 5, 1960 at the Culpeper Baptist Church, Culpeper. Mrs. Charles Edward Johnson, Jr., of Sperryville was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for a term of three years. More than 10 inches of snow...
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A staff representative from Rep. Eric Cantor’s congressional office will be available to discuss constituent concerns from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 22, at the Rappahannock County Library in Washington. Constituents who need assistance or have problems of a federal nature can speak with a representative from Cantor’s office in the library conference...
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These Rappahannock County home and land transfers were recorded in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Clerk’s office between Feb. 26 and March 4 Hawthorne Cynthia MacDonald and other to Cynthia MacDonald trustee, 36.396 acres, deed gift, tax map 47-5 Jackson Hunter M. Call to Hunter M. Call and wife, 15.977 acres, deed gift, tax...
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You can take me home and teach me all sorts of tricks. That’s because I’m not even three months old and, as you know, a young dog can learn all sorts of stuff. My name is Brinks and I’m a puppy’s puppy. Baby dog, through and through. Happy and social and eager and loving...
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Special to the Rappahannock News The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal has released its schedule of free lectures for the spring. The lectures are at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, starting March 31. The schedule: March 31: Turtles: A Cause for Wonder, a Cause for Concern Turtles, among the oldest group of vertebrate...
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Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services Board and Area Agency on Aging transportation services will not operate this Friday in observance of a staff In-Service. On Wednesday, March 17, the Rappahannock County Planning Commission meeting has been canceled. The Town of Washington solicits letters of interest to fill a vacancy on both the Town of Washington’s...
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