Starting tomorrow, Sept. 3, visitors to Rappahannock County will have an official starting point. A Rappahannock County Visitors Center, subject of much discussion and not a little dissension earlier this year, will open its doors for at least three days a week — Friday through Sunday — beginning this Labor Day weekend. The center...
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After instituting foreclosure proceedings against the delinquent partnership that bought the Aileen property from Rappahannock County in 2004, the county found itself with a willing buyer last month. Thus foreclosure on the former clothing factory property, a novel site in an otherwise agricultural county, appears to have been avoided. The buyer — real estate...
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The earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 killed hundreds of thousands and devastated the Caribbean island nation. Life was hard in the best of times there but the earthquake has added to their miseries. A group in the town of Washington is trying to help recovery efforts by raising funds to restore a...
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Slower speeds in Sperryville, a 25th anniversary for the county's oldest continually owned and operated B&B, and Drew Ernst returns for more large doings at Sperryville's Haley Fine Art.
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“His friends and family in Pakistan call him President Mohsin,” Carol Lucking said of 20-year-old college student Mohsin Ahmad, who began his second semester at Goucher College in Baltimore this Tuesday. As international coordinator for the Aspect Foundation, Lucking first met Mohsin in 2005, setting him up with a host family in Amissville where...
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Bump — set — crush: That was the overwhelming theme of Rapp’s Tuesday night home volleyball matches against the Eastern View High School Cyclones of Culpeper. The Lady Panthers had much to celebrate, with match scores of 3-0 for the varsity team, and 2-0 for the JV team. The varsity was just warming up...
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Upcoming games
for RCHS teams
Saturday, Sept. 4
6 p.m., varsity football at Hancock High School
Tuesday, Sept. 7
6 p.m., JV volleyball at Culpeper County High School
7:15 p.m., varsity volleyball at Culpeper County High School
Thursday, Sept. 9
4:30 p.m., Middle School volleyball hosts Mountain View Christian Academy
Friday, Sept. 10
7 p.m. varsity football...
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The hope of a new season. The uncertainty of the first contest. The anticipation of triumph. This week, runners at Rappahannock County High School readied for Wednesday’s contest against Skyline High School of Front Royal on the Hawks’ turf. “We are a young team, but a lot of the runners stayed fit over the...
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Middle Street Gallery artist Patricia Brennan will exhibit new hand-painted stained glass at the gallery from Friday (Sept. 3) through Sept. 26. Her works depicting botanical themes will be fitted onto light boxes, providing the sole source of light in a darkened room.
The exhibition is called "By the Grace of Light" to celebrate...
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The Theatre at Washington mailed out schedules last week for another season of worthwhile concerts and other performances at the intimate theater on Gay Street.
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In May of this year, I wrote an article about an Eastern snapping turtle that visited my wife’s flowerbed, dug a hole and laid a bunch of eggs in it. I had read on the Internet that it takes about 90 days for the eggs to hatch. I have been watching the spot where...
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Family members and close friends gathered for a birthday bash Saturday evening to celebrate Eugene Leggett turning 85. The dinner party was hosted by Beverly and John Sullivan at their home, The Meadows, in Little Washington. Leggett, former mayor of Washington and now a town council member, was toasted by Sullivan, the new mayor,...
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A century ago the Rappahannock News was called The Blue Ridge Guide. Only four pages long, it looked like the New York Times. It had seven columns jam-packed with small print and small headlines, with no page-filling photos or illustrations. Stories of tragedies on the front page caught the eye. Coverage of national, international,...
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Just how the United States can restore long-term, non-inflationary economic growth will be the subject of the First Friday at the Library program on Sept. 10.
Pat Choate, an economist, author and Rappahannock resident will speak on the subject for the series sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community (RAAC) .
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Did you know that … Ellerslie, just outside of Little Washington on Tiger Valley Road, was once the jewel of the great Rappahannock County estate of John Jett, who owned considerable property south and east of the town. The Ellerslie mansion is long gone but its old gardens live on. Boxwoods from the plantation...
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“He loved the land and everything that came from it,” says Washington, Va. attorney Doug Baumgardner of his longtime friend, Ray Cannon, who passed away this week at the age of 93. There can be no greater tribute for a Rappahannock County native son. For places like Rappahannock to retain their good character and...
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Our robust deer population is a great asset, but there can be too much of a good thing, as anyone who has met a deer up close and personal at 55 miles per hour can attest. Since times are hard, Rappahannock County is instituting a program to help those who need some food assistance...
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So many issues crowd the headlines and stories called news. There is an issue, abuse, which is just too awful to think about. Abuse comes in so many forms: physical, mental, verbal, control, but the outcome is always the same. Families, women and children who have been exposed to abuse suffer and those around...
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Hezekiah Ricketts built the Ricketts Hotel in Flint Hill in 1869 and it served travelers as well as locals, who used it as a rooming house. Two doctors had their medical practices here. At some point, a saloon occupied part of the space. From 1915 to 1940, girls from the Foxcroft School would stop...
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50 years ago September 8, 1960 The Amissville Baptist Church baseball team defeated Remington Saturday in a game played at Culpeper to take the Shiloh Association Championship. The Amissville team, managed by Jack James, had as its players Teddy Hodge, Wendell Latham, Douglas Bywaters, William James, David James, Billy Mills, Earl Mills, Otis Deal,...
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The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal has announced its fall series of free Wednesday evening lectures, which runs from Oct. 6 through Nov. 3.
Lectures are held in the training center at SCBI, 1500 Remount Road, just south of Front Royal off U.S. 522. Seating is limited.
For more information, contact the SCBI education...
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First, fly to Buenos Aires. Then travel to the Argentinean city of Salta. Then head to the small town of Tartagal near the Bolivian border. Then board off-road vehicles for a 15-mile trip into the jungle.
That was the itinerary in early June for Gustavo Tisera, a Wakefield Country Day School Spanish teacher and soccer...
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I’m a four-year-old Chihuahua mix who is called Gypsy. Our sort is thought of as bossy and yappy, but that is not my way. Everyone should have a model, a creature that one looks to for guidance, inspiration; for an attitude about life. My model is Grace Kelly. So, you see, you and I...
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The following will be closed Monday, Sept. 6 in observance of Labor Day and will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 7: Rappahannock County government offices; Rappahannock County Public Schools; Rappahannock National Bank; BB&T Bank in Flint Hill; Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and the Rappahannock News. The Rappahannock News has an early deadline for the...
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These Rappahannock County home and land transfers were recorded in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Clerk’s office between Aug. 20 and Aug. 26 : Hawthorne McCormick 102 LLC to Brian Murphy, $140,000, deed bargain sale, tax map 54-11 Hawthorne Stonewall JP Morgan Chase National Association to Stephen Paull and wife, $249,975, deed bargain sale,...
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