Before delaying for a month its vote on designating a stretch of the Hazel River as a State Scenic River, the county Board of Supervisors heard some unusual testimony from a Culpeper County landowner last Wednesday night. Ben and Rita Grace, who own land along the Hazel in Culpeper County, had nothing good to...
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Daily Archives: Jul. 15, 2010
Hazel River vote is delayed
The Rapp for July 15
Top basketmakers at the Culpeper-Madison-Rappahannock Farm Show; more work (and more play for you) at the Castleton Festival; local 12-and-under team heads to the state baseball tournament; and more.
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Castleton: The shows go on, with locals’ help
Pulling off a music series like the 2010 Castleton Festival takes the work of a lot of helping hands both behind the scenes and in front.
The music festival is in its second year. It features performances by a 200-member company of young artists under the guidance of conductor Lorin Maazel. This year's festival...
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Total loss
The damage is clear in this photo of one of the rear rooms of the house on Woodward Road in Sperryville that was destroyed in a fire early Saturday. The 100-year-old frame house belongs to longtime Rappahannock restaurant and market owner Rae Gaedke, who is in Florida looking after her mother.
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Higher, sooner education
Fourteen-year-old Skyler Owens is taking a great leap forward by skipping the last two years of high school to enroll at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton this fall.
By forgoing the pomp and circumstance of receiving a high school diploma to start college early, she could be getting a bachelor's degree at an age when...
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Ash to Ash . . .
It might sound like a B-grade horror movie, with a title like “Killer Baby Bug Eats Victims Alive.” But it’s a true tale, and it’s unfolding now in Northern Virginia.
The insect’s prey is not human, but ash trees. The “killer” is the emerald ash borer, which is smaller than a penny and, as its...
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Traffic stops lead to drug, driving charges
On July 7, Deputy Robert Fincham of the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office stopped a vehicle on U.S. 211 for defective brake lights. Kathryn Rebecca Teel, 25, of Sperryville, was arrested and charged with driving with a revoked license, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. It was the third traffic stop in two...
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Washington: Kudos to local artist Linda Lawler
Congratulations go out to local artist and Ice House Gallery owner Linda Lawler, who received a Judge’s Choice Award and $100 for her painting “Adonis -- My Son” at the 2010 King George Art Show on July 4.
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Sperryville: Virginia Web site features village
We all delight in the tranquility and scenic beauty of Sperryville and Rappahannock County. Now those assets are well represented on the state film marketing Web site. Check out www.film.virginia.org, then search for Sperryville and you will find 66 photos taken in and around our little village. If you search for Rappahannock...
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Editorial: Deadly combination
Of all the recent Rappahannock News stories to stir reader reaction, none has surpassed the verdict in the trial of a teenage driver whose schoolmate was killed in a vehicular crash last October. In a case like this, no matter the outcome, there will always be those who say injustice has prevailed. So rather...
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Rappahannock Voices: Drowned by the tide of ‘progress’
I remember a time when most of America looked like Rappahannock County. Oh, there were differences of course -- the kind that come with regions, climate and architectural influences -- but what was similar was the quality of rural life, small towns and the human scale of Main Street USA. Since that time significant...
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Letter: Thank you, Rappahannock, from SVFD
Independence Day 2010 was celebrated in an immeasurable fashion again this year at the Thornton Hill Hounds Race Course on July 4. Citizens attended from all corners of Rappahannock County and elsewhere to hear musical entertainment, witness the reading of the Declaration of Independence, and see exhibitors, hot air balloons, children’s games, vintage tractor...
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Letter: Potential denied
Walter Nicklin, publisher of the Rappahannock News, poses the following questions in his editorial : “How could it possibly have happened that such sparsely populated 13 colonies 234 years ago could produce the truly gifted and courageous individuals that signed the Declaration? Where are such individuals today?” Mr. Nicklin then presents...
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Out of the attic
The "Sunbeam Band," as they called themselves, posed for this picture in October 1952 at the Luannah Smith residence in Sperryville. They are, front row, from left, Jackie Brown, "Bucky" Fletcher, Doris Ann Dodson, Michael Brown; second row, Louise Fletcher, Cathy Fletcher, Charles Dodson, Lee Thorton, Joe Brown; and, back row, Janice Lee Dodson,...
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Down Memory Lane
50 years ago July 14, 1960 Miss Becky Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Jones of Washington, accepted a position with a meal and flour company and left Sunday for Chicago, where she will attend a training school for two weeks, after which she will work in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and...
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Head Lion
At the Rappahannock Lions annual picnic July 9, senior Lion Bob Anderson, right, congratulates R.C. Garcia as the organization’s incoming president, taking over from Steve Miller, left. Some 55 Lions and their spouses attended the picnic and installation ceremony for the new president, who’ll serve a 2010-2011 term.
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Summer sunlight scorches skin
Basking on the beach.
Toiling in the noonday sun.
Covering our eyes from the glare.
Showing off our bronzed arms and legs.
Ah, summertime and those languid sun-drenched afternoons. Soaking in the sun to the point of being burning hot is not only uncomfortable but potentially lethal.
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RAWL Dogs: Peanut
Peanut is my name, but that is merely a cover, a “nom de shelter.” Inside me, deep in my soul, I am “Lion.” I am so ferocious, so thoroughly in command, that the captain of my platoon permits me to display my Jimmy Cagney poster in my locker. I’m a three-year-old Chihuahua mix. Modesty...
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Rapp Facts
Did you know that . . . The building that the county uses as its jail was completed as part of the courthouse complex about 1835. But it is just one of three places that have served as jails over the years. In colonial days, the house at the northeast corner of Main and...
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Meetings and notices
On Wednesday, July 21 the Rappahannock County Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 p. m. at the county courthouse on Gay Street. Highlights on the agenda: Healy Tourist Home; Smith & Moon Country Inn; Smithsonian Conservation and Biology Institute — Marshall Jones, senior conservation adviser.
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RappCats: Suzy
Suzy is still looking for a home. She is a beautiful long-haired cat, perhaps a year old, with a number of Maine Coon attributes. More shy than outgoing, Suzy would probably be best as the only feline in the household where she would certainly add affection and companionship. Please consider giving her a home.
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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 between July 9 and July 15. Jackson Peter S. Snyder and wife to Paul D. Constable and wife, Jackson district lot 6 sec. 111 19.893 sq. ft., $145,000, deed bargain sale, tax map 23A-2-3-6 Piedmont John W....
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More barley, cotton, soybeans grown
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reports that the commonwealth’s farmers will increase barley acreage by 23,000 this year. Cotton and soybean acreages are up nine percent and two percent, respectively. Peanut and hay acreage has increased as well, according to a survey conducted in early June by the Virginia Field Office...
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It’s a boy
Eric and Crystal Smith of Sperryville are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Maddox Harrison Smith.
He was born June 8 at Fauquier Hospital Family Birthing Center.
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