Some days you eat the bear -- but most days in Rappahannock County, the bear eats . . . not you. Your stuff.
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Daily Archives: Jun. 3, 2010
The bear; the facts
The Rapp
Buy a reproduction of a Rappahannock County courthouse desk and help the Food Pantry and Free Clinic; an antique and garden show worth a visit this weekend.
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Home . . . scholarship
Sitting in the boys’ living room with their mother and hearing about the scholarships and honors Austin and Tyler Burdick will be taking with them to the University of Virginia in the fall, a less intrepid reporter might wonder just where these Flint Hill kids went to high school.
The answer to such a dumb...
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School/Sports News: In the end, Ladies lose to No. 1
The Lady Panthers lose a hard-fought District semifinal to Madison, a Cal Ripkin League game goes 11 innings and is won by the Rappahannock Rage, and lots more.
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Their hobby is your local weather station
Thanks to at least two Rappahannock County weather buffs, anyone with an Internet connection can view daily weather statistics for Rappahannock anytime. Dave Yowell of Sperryville and Demaris Miller of Washington both say that a weather station is something that gives them joy and satisfies their curiosity about mysterious weather trends and patterns, temperatures,...
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Postponed . . .
This 1993 Ford Explorer caught fire on the way up the fire road at the end of Keyser Run Road leading to the Baldwin family cemetery in Shenandoah National Park where the family meets twice yearly to tidy up the historic grounds and have a picnic. Washington Fire Chief Ann Spieker says no one...
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Holiday weekend deadly; earlier motorcycle crash kills Fauquier man
No traffic fatalities occurred in Rappahannock County during the Memorial Day holiday weekend but a 21-year-old Fauquier County man died in a road accident near Shenandoah National Park on May 20.
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Rapp Facts
Did you know that . . . Rock Mills was the site of a holding camp for Confederate deserters rounded up in the area during the Civil War? There once were mills, stores and a post office at Rock Mills, but today it’s just a few houses.
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Washington: Wash that dog
Some children sell lemonade for a summer job but not 10-year-old Katie Bailey.
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Sperryville: A summer season in full swing
Residents and visitors alike soaked up the official opening of summer on Memorial Day weekend in a variety of ways.
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RAWL Dogs: Bailey
I’m a medium-size, five-year-old dog and I am part Hound, part Lab. That’s a deep, rich, chocolate brindle coat that I wear. My name is Bailey, but I don’t really need a name, because you hardly know that I am there. Some people think I am part cat, because I am so clean and...
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Editorial: Rappahannock’s Super Bowl
Often more memorable than the athletic contest itself are the commercials that punctuate the football game on Super Bowl Sunday. The one that continues to play in many people’s minds goes something like this: “Hey, Drew Brees (or Tom Brady or Eli Manning), now that you’ve just won the Super Bowl, what are you...
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Letter: Community comes through again for Panther band
Thanks once again to the generous folks who came through with flying colors to support our Rappahannock County High School Panther Band program on May 22. I’m not surprised. It happens time and time again. The entertainment was amazing throughout the full, wonderful evening that ended with a Jazz Band performance under the direction...
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Letter: Celebrating a life
On May 24, at the Town Hall, Washington, family and friends celebrated the life of Nona Nielsen Genebach. It was what it was supposed to be, a lighthearted gathering with funny stories and humorous incidents from her past. She would have loved it. Nona died June 1, 2008. Larry Genebach Front Royal
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Down Memory Lane / Out of the Attic
On the evening of Friday, June 10 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The Sunday School of the Washington Baptist Church is entertaining at a reception in honor of Mrs. J. Frank Jones in recognition of her fifty years of faithful service in the primary department. All of her friends and former pupils are cordially...
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Garden Club award
Mary Ann Krammes of Round Hill (right) is presented the First-Place Award for creating the Rappahannock County Garden Club yearbook by club president Mary Collins. Krammes competed with all garden clubs in the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs to achieve her first-place award for the 2009-2010 yearbook.
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Home and land transfers
These Rappahannock County home and land transfers were recorded in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Clerk’s office from May 21 to May 27: Jackson Dieter Schillinger to Dieter Schellinger and others, 9.995 acres, deed of gift, tax map 41-1-E Dieter Schillinger to Dieter Schellinger and others, 35.005 acres, deed of gift, tax map 41-1-C...
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Meetings and notices
On Thursday, June 3, the Rappahannock County Water and Sewer Authority will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Rappahannock County courthouse on Gay Street. On Tuesday, June 8, the Rappahannock County School Board will meet in a 7 p.m. closed session and a 7:30 p.m. public session in the RCHS band room. The Town...
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