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Cafe for lease but Rapp Central stays
Sperryville column for Jan. 19
Matthew Hamilton, Rudy's Pizza's passionate new manager; Helen Wasmund, a living testament to Fauquier Hospital's spinal surgeons.
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Sperryville column for Jan. 12
Getting to know Knit Wit Yarn Shop's color and creativity at its new location, and there's a new yoga teacher in town.
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Editorial: A new year
Two years ago, this newspaper’s longtime publisher, the late Arthur “Nick” Arundel, who loved the Rappahannock News because he loved Rappahannock County, decided it was time to sell. At about the same time, he sold another rural, county-seat-based paper, the Clarke Courier in Berryville. Today, the Courier no longer exists, but the Rappahannock News...
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County will pay off lights rather than loan interest
With $220,000 outstanding, the note being paid by the county for the stadium lights installed three years ago at the high school has been accruing interest at the rate of $30 a day. The Board of Supervisors put an end to that and voted to pay the note off.
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Retail back to ‘School’
Retail businesses return to Sperryville School House (formerly the Link), and business is looking up elsewhere.
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Can you hear me now?
A brief update on AT&T's cell tower construction plans.
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County’s resources: on the rise?
When Richard Lykes died in February 2009, he left the majority of his estate – about $2 million – to the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation. His only stipulation was that the money be used to benefit Rappahannock County, his adopted home. It is up to NPCF executive director Cole Johnson, and the rest of...
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Cafe Indigo hires Inn sous chef
Sperryville’s Cafe Indigo has hired as its new chef former Inn at Little Washington sous chef Anthony Ahrens. The 26-year-old Ahrens is the second sous chef in as many months to leave the renowned Washington restaurant not for one chef Patrick O’Connell’s many high-end competitors around the U.S. and Europe but for a restaurant...
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Farm Tour vendors wanted
The Rappahannock County Farm Tour’s “All Things Rappahannock Market” at The Link is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24-25. Space is available for vendors to sell produce, plants, food items, textiles, soap, crafts, etc. or to provide information regarding their organization. Vendors and organizations must have ties to the land and/or farming in...
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River of rocks
Though it’s the season for low water levels, those levels — illustrated here by the meager flow of the the Thornton River Wednesday in front of the Glassworks Gallery on U.S. 211 in Sperryville — are the subject of a draft of a county water supply plan, which will be presented to the Rappahannock...
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Little Washington landlord pleads guilty
An alert reader sent in this link to a Local Kicks story about Alexandria publisher Peter Labovitz’s guilty plea in the IRS and Justice Department’s case against him for failing to pay $940,000 in employment taxes. Labovitz represents the trust that owns the building just vacated by Middle Street Gallery and Cory Caulfield Gallery,...
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Sustainability: The dance goes on
As if it wasn’t enough of a challenge to follow all the rules and guidelines necessary to have your products designated as “organic,” Nick Lapham has also tackled . . . biodiversity. Certain newspapers that would attempt to cover certain rural Virginia counties filled with singularly distinctive people must exercise caution when calling out...
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AT&T cell towers are a done deal
Welcomed or not, the cell tower configuration for Rappahannock County is on course to be in operation as early as this fall. In its Monday night meeting, the board of supervisors approved the last of five AT&T cell facility applications.
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Tourism up countywide, many report
More unfamiliar but welcome faces are apparently showing up in the streets, guest rooms and dining tables of Little Washington and elsewhere in the county.
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Town finds tourism up for 2010
After shrinking for three years, Washington's tourism-fueled tax receipts are growing again.
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Innkeepers offered a PBS series
It appears that innkeepers John and Diane MacPherson of Washington’s Foster Harris House will soon have a lot more to make than breakfast and bike trips. After nearly three years of work on a food/lifestyle/cooking pilot called “In Season,” the MacPhersons were offered a broadcasting and distribution deal by PBS this week.
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Homing in on Rappahannock
A visit with the doves that Mark and Liz Rhein keep on their nine-acre Cornucopia Farm in Washington -- and release regularly at the request of clients across Northern Virginia.
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Castleton Festival 2011 fare is set
Artistic director Lorin Maazel and administrative director Dietlinde Turban Maazel have announced and concert program details for the 2011 Castleton Festival, which will bring together young talent with experienced professionals for 20 opera and concert performances over four weeks starting June 25.
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Washington column for March 10
Five Diamond award for the Middleton Inn; new hours for Ice House Gallery; Hair Gallery winners; birthday wishes; and it's time to reset those clocks, and recharge the spirit, for spring.
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Sperryville column for March 3
A visit with Sperryville's 12-year-old glassblowing master-to-be; Mount Vernon's inn-to-be; dates and driving speeds to remember.
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Planners OK last two poles
After a final balloon test this weekend, the cell phone tower permit process moves into the hands of county supervisors March 7. The County Planning Commission voted last Wednesday night (Feb. 16) to recommend approval of the last two facilities in AT&T’s five-project plan to offer coverage to an estimated 45 percent of county...
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The Rapp for Feb. 24
Restaurant doings around the county; summer camp help from Headwaters; "The Kids Are All Right" is RAAC's next Friday movie; Middle Street artists show and tell.
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Letter: Businesses Link up
The Feb. 15 gathering of Rappahannock Business Link was attended by nearly 50 professionals and enjoyed by all. Chef Victor of Griffin Tavern provided delicious food, and Jim and Debbie Donehey were underwriters for the gathering. Narmada Winery’s wines were served through the generosity of Sudha and Pandit Patil. The business professionals present shared...
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Letter: Network at the Link Tuesday evening
Last fall, several board members at the Link began a discussion about holding an event that would provide an opportunity for business people within our community to come together in a relaxed atmosphere and spend a few hours networking with each other. We were enthused at the outset but unsure as to the viability...
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Cattle inventory down a percent
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced this week that Virginia’s cattle and calf inventory was down one percent in 2010. (“Cattle and calf” is a term used for breeding beef cows that have calves.)
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Planners OK two more cell towers
The county’s board of supervisors will consider at its next meeting on Feb. 7 AT&T’s applications to build two more 199-foot cellular-service monopoles in the county.
Both were recommended for approval by county planners last week.
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Developer seeks input on Clevenger’s project
Centex's proposal to build upward of 800 homes at Clevenger's Corner has been dormant since it was approved several years ago, but a village designed for 125 acres across the road is moving ahead.
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Editorial: Who’ll pay the price at Clevenger’s Corner?
The wheels of “progress” are now in motion at Clevenger’s Corner, just across the border in Culpeper County, and there is precious little that we in Rappahannock County can do to affect the direction or speed of such progress. Or maybe there is? In a savvy gesture of good will and smart politics, Jim...
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The Rapp for Jan. 13
About 50 Rappahannock residents attended a town hall meeting hosted by Virginia Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-26th) Saturday at the Rappahannock County Library. Obenshain discussed several issues he is working on, including an amendment to the state constitution to eliminate eminent domain for economic development and the privatization of the sale of alcohol.
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Sperryville column for Jan. 13
James D. Russell, who died Jan. 5, was a pillar of the community who was loved by all who knew him. We extend our condolences to his family. From J.D. Hartman comes a heartwarming story about Mr. Russell. In 1992, J.D. opened a barbecue place beside Mountainside Market in a building owned by Mr....
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First A&T cell tower: approved
In the end, practicality beat out romance. Facing an audience of more than three dozen Monday night — most of whom applauded the 15 citizens who spoke out against the first plan to build a cellular monopole in the county in a decade — the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors shook its collective head,...
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Postcard from 2020
This following was sent in with a return address -- and a sense of humor -- suspiciously resembling that of Flint Hill resident Ron Maxwell.
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Cafe Indigo’s Carosi hopes to Shaker things up
Like so many routes to Rappahannock County, Sebastian Carosi’s was supposed to end somewhere else. “We had come down from Maine, we were maybe looking for someplace warmer to live,” Carosi says, speaking of the car trip that he and his wife, Heather, and his young son Zander, made to Virginia two months ago...
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Planners say yes to first AT&T tower
The Rappahannock County Planning Commission Wednesday night unanimously voted to recommend approval of AT&T's application for the first of five proposed cell towers in the county.
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Clevenger’s Corner plans coming
If things go as planned this week, Jim Epstein, chairman of Washington, D.C.-based EFO Capital Management, Inc., will submit preliminary paperwork to the Culpeper County Planning Commission for a commercial and residential development at Clevenger's Corner.
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Letter: Disconnected thinking
I read Ron Maxwell’s long-winded Luddite manifesto in the Dec. 2 Rappahannock News and I think he missed the point. People here in Rappahannock County are also hoping that improved cellular service will provide additional, competitive options for land-line phone service or broadband Internet. Local businesses, especially those that require travel, would like to...
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Letter: Tone deaf on cell service
Ron Maxwell writes in The Rappahannock News (“Tower of Babel,” Dec. 2) that he’s content to live in a county where he “can’t get service and happy to turn the thing off.” It bothers him, he says, to sit at restaurants where patrons “yammer” on the cell phone and to share a...
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Letter: Thinking outside the cell phone box
Some folks in Rappahannock County may need mobile communications for various reasons, personal or business. The default solution isn’t the construction of more cell phone towers, which bring with them many undesirable consequences. Here are some alternatives that fill three basic needs: 1. Safety on the road or at home: Satellite phones have been...
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Balloon test set for cell tower
The Planning Commission tabled an application by AT&T last Wednesday for its recommendation to the Rappahannock County supervisors on the first of several cell towers AT&T wants to build in the county — to allow anyone interested to attend a “balloon test” now scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 4. Though one of the commission’s better-attended...
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