Truck won; thanks to many Tom Barber of Richardsville (here with wife, Cindy) was the lucky winner of the 2010 Ford Ranger pickup truck given away Saturday night by the Flint Hill Fire Department at its annual carnival. Janet Woodward of Amissville won the black angus beef. Thanks to everyone who came out to...
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An assessment of waterways throughout the state has found that water quality in Rappahannock County is about the same as it was two years ago. The 2010 draft report released Monday by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) listed a section of the Hughes River as “impaired” for having excessive temperatures in stockable...
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Ask anyone who’s been around Rappahannock County for 30 or more years how the county has managed to maintain its rural and scenic character when other nearby counties have not and the name Newbill Miller comes up.
From his perch on the county planning commission he helped put into place the standards that thwarted the...
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Terrence Johnson believes that establishing a winning football program at Rappahannock County High School does not start with the size of a player or even the number of players on the roster. “No matter what, you have to have a winning attitude,” said Johnson, who will debut as the Panthers’ head varsity coach Friday...
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After saying his good-byes to his former Rappahannock County High School teachers, Joe Vickers strolled to the parking lot and popped the door to the family van. A smile came over his face. “Inside,” he said, “is my life for the next three months.” Clothing for every kind of weather. A laptop computer. Sheets,...
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School is back in session, and the harbingers of victory are back on the volleyball court at Rappahannock County High School. With a 3-0 match win on Tuesday (Aug. 24), the varsity and JV volleyball Panthers soundly defeated the Culpeper Blue Devils at Rapp’s first home game of the season. Although sports practices officially...
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Anything that brings a group of people together is a chance for a politician to “press the flesh” and try to secure some votes. That’s what brought Rick Waugh to Rappahannock County on Aug. 20. He dropped in on the Flint Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue parade that afternoon. The Democratic Party candidate first...
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If all goes according to plan, Bill Blalock will finally get to ride a motorcycle he owned for many years without ever having cranked up the engine.
That motorcycle is one of about 80 entered in this fall's Motorcycle Cannonball, a 17-day race from Kitty Hawk, N.C., to Santa Monica, Cal.
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Mountaintop coffee in Shenandoah National Park; the Historical Society's Antiques Appraisal; a special book sale at the library; and a reminder to water those plant barrels in town.
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Your rescue squad needs your help. Ambulance drivers and Emergency Medical Technicians who are already certified or who would like to take free training are especially needed. So much goes into sustaining a volunteer team and advanced life support ambulances at a professional level and like many organizations, the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad has...
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Money isn’t everything. That’s easy to say for those of us still standing at the tail end (one hopes!) of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. So to rephrase the sentiment: Who here would want to live in Loudoun County? Fairfax? Prince William? That’s what I thought . . . . Very...
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The following is excerpted from the speech Rappahannock County Public Schools Superintendent Aldridge A. Boone delivered to the school division’s staff on Aug. 16: In 1895, Booker T. Washington said, “In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential...
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Did you know that … Rappahannock County High School has a world-class band that performs at venues near and far. But years before the Panther Band brought musical fame to the county there were worthy predecessors. In the early 1900s, community bands were very popular in small localities, and for many years Sperryville had...
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When Maureen Harris advised me that you had kindly provided 200 copies of the Rappahannnock News’s annual “Guide to Rappahannock County” for the information packets for the Shenandoah District of the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs’ semi-annual district meeting, I was ecstatic. We are doing our best to showcase all that Rappahannock has to...
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A special meeting of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 30, at the Courthouse in Washington. The purpose of the meeting is to consider a resolution authorizing the transfer of ownership of the former Aileen property near Flint Hill from the current owner to a new private...
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We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who played a part in this year’s Rappahannock Night at Camp Fantastic. Once again, it was a huge success! The committee — Sandra Jenkins, Marie Davis, Jan Makela and Jim Blubaugh — was invaluable in planning this event. Charlotte Turnmeyer and Geneva Welch offered...
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Submitted by Tom Tepper, Castleton.
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Calling all runners, walkers and cancer survivors: the Madison Women’s Four Miler Training Program wants you for the first annual community-wide 4 Mile Fun Run on Aug. 28 at Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison.
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50 years ago September 1, 1960 Miss Elizabeth Taylor Bruce, daughter of Robert S. Bruce of Front Royal and niece of Mr. And Mrs. C. E. Brown of Sperryville, with whom she made her home, received her diploma from Grace Hospital School of Nursing, Friday, Aug. 26. Miss Bruce was a graduate of the...
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New teachers, graduates, post-graduates and award-winners around the county.
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Success. How do we love thee? Let us count the ways. Within a family, success often comes to siblings in predictable order and with time separating their stories. Tyler and Tessa Crews are a brother-sister anomaly. Tyler Crews, a Rappahannock County High School 2010 graduate, is anticipating his move to the University of North...
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Each year I select a book to give each family member. I use The Washington Post annual holiday book reviews and The New York Times annual “notable books of the year” list to help guide my purchases. I usually find an annotation that intrigues me, and I order a book (or two or three)...
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My name is Carey, and I would like to count on your support in the coming election. You see, while I am only six months old, I am always the leader in any play group. Clearly, this qualifies me to serve on the school board, so I am running for that office. My platform:...
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Woodville native Mary Rudasill Pankey and her husband F. Lawson Pankey are celebrating the 60th anniversary of their wedding, which took place at Woodville Baptist Church on Aug. 19, 1950. The couple now resides in Richmond. They were joined by their four children and their families for an anniversary celebration. Among Mary’s bridal attendants...
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The Rappahannock County School Sports Association (RCSSA) is raffling off a brand new Kubota RTV500 camouflage utility vehicle on Oct. 23 at the Link in Sperryville. Three hundred tickets for the grand prize vehicle will be sold at $100 each. Four second place prizes of $500 each will be awarded. The vehicle will be...
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These Rappahannock County home and land transfers were recorded in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Clerk’s office between Aug. 13 and Aug. 19: Piedmont Bobette Lee Swindler to Phyllis A. Swindler, 60.7692304% interest, deed gift, tax map 37-9C Stephen J. Lee and wife to Kiwi Properties LLC, 1.229 acres, deed bargain sale, tax map...
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