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Good eggs are hard to come by — harder than you may think. It seems you can find chicken and eggs labeled "organic" and "free range" in just about any grocery store these days, packaged in bucolic images of rolling green hills and red barns. That is almost never the reality, even among...
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Master gardeners at the Coop; a new medic and more for SVRS; happy birthdays, outdoor dining and stay tuned for a choral concert, plant sale, renaissance fair and community yard sale.
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Local artists at Gallery 251; art, music and the annual Fodderstack, Miss Rappahannock, Celtic music and more in Washington and Sperryville; a monumental Picasso recreation at Wakefield; gold for Gray Ghost.
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Horses drawn at Ice House Gallery; giving a lift to Washington First Baptist Church's steeple; a birthday kidnapping; spaghetti dinner on Sunday and another word from the Hazel River Poet.
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What has quickly become one of the county’s premier social and fundraising events, the Rappahannock Evening View, will be held Saturday, May 21 at Mountain Green, the home of Ashleigh and Alex Sharp located between the town of Washington and Shenandoah National Park.
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Celebrate mutts with wine; a happy Hunter Jenkins birthday; more room for pizza; clean sweep news; adult ballet classes; a school board vacancy.
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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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Enjoy fun musical performances, good all-you-can-eat food, and great community camaraderie? If so, the Sixth Annual Panther Band Coffee House may be for you!
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Local Girl Scout wins the Gold Award; Trinity sponsors a workshop on conflict; WVF&R Ladies Auxiliary Thrift Shop wants you to see what you can fit in a big for $5; another Sunday in the Country cooking class; a jellybean-counting expert wins at the post office.
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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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A visit home from Tyler Hartman; love at the Copper Fox; meet Cheryl Lynn Herrmann; birthdays and the Virginia Wine Gazette's Web site.
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Another year of outstanding service from the Sperryville Rescue Squad; time for Miss Rappahannock registrations; the Sperryville committee considers tourism issues; Valentine's Day specials in the county; a super and silly time at the Benevolent Fund dinner; Triple Oak Bakery will bring you lunch; get well to Rebecca Abecassis.
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Kudos to all who worked so hard to make the Rappahannock Benevolent Fund dinner on Saturday night a success. There was great music, delicious food, laughter and hugs all around. It brought together a cross-section of the Rappahannock community, in the broadest sense, at the Link to do good – illustrating once again why,...
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Elementary students and Jeff Brown take on heart health; Sylvie Rowand takes on more Sundays in the Country cooking classes; a successful Washington fire hall breakfast and transfer of power.
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It takes a whale of a lot of organizing, collaboration, planning and preparation to put together the Rappahannock Benevolent Fund’s “Celebrity Waiters” benefit dinner. And an impressive group of folks are involved in making a success of the event, which starts at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Link. In the midst of one...
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Update on the Benevolent Fund's annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner Jan. 29 at the Link in Sperryville.
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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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Sperryville's 2010 in review, history of a stone wall; Reynolds Memorial's mission trip; condolences and best wishes.
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As a professional chef who grew up on an organic New England farmstead, I’m deeply drawn to vegetables grown underground. I find them mysterious and otherworldly.
Like geodes and gemstones, they come from a universe that I know little of. They drink in the nutrients from dark soil and transform them into perfectly imperfect knobs...
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New Year's customs, including a recipe for black-eyed peas; an early Christmas present; sympathy and birthday wishes.
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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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Gifts of love, shopping local, eating local -- and driving 25 -- in the village.
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Jody Green, left, and Megan Baker are served by Kate Kevis at the Thornton River Grille Wednesday morning, the first day of the restaurant’s new Tuesday-Saturday early service, during which a wallet-friendly breakfast (with homemade biscuits and muffins) and free high-speed internet access (wi-fi) are served from 7:30 to 10. Sperryville has been without...
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Breakfast with Santa at the fire hall, soup for you on Main Street, gifts of health and the importance traditions.
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Al and Cheryl Kellert, owners and winemakers of Gray Ghost Vineyards and Winery in Amissville, represented Virginia as speakers at the 43rd National Conference of the American Wine Society in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Nov. 12. This was the third year the Kellerts spoke at the conference. They discussed grape growing and winemaking in Virginia...
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The Inn at Little Washington hosted a reception and Shenandoah National Park Trust fundraiser for approximately 100 people at its Tavern Shops Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the park and the opening of “Our Heritage, Our Park,” a collection of 27 works by local painter Kevin H. Adams.
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Small-business shopping? Sperryville was made for it. Also news of a new chef at High on the Hog BBQ and support for Afghanistan veterans.
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Congratulations to The Inn at Little Washington for its continued success as one of the most outstanding restaurants and inns in the world! Recently, The Inn earned, yet again, for the 21st consecutive year, the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide Five Star awards for both its restaurant and its guest rooms. This accomplishment is no...
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Ensuring that students have access to healthy food at school is the task of the food service director for the Rappahannock Public Schools. Getting them to want to eat what’s good for them can be a hurdle. Deanna Wayland has been food service director for the school division since Aug. 1. She is also...
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An hour early (your clocks, overnight Saturday); a day late (our home deliveries next week, due to the Veterans Day holiday); more Washington Christmas Parade participants are welcome; order your pies now for the annual RCHS pie sale; Mitzie Young appreciates the "overwhelming" birthday wishes; the Eat Local Challenge is on.
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Halloween treats; fall feasts, including a Mandalele potluck at Belle Meade, apple cake at High on the Hog and your favorite fall fruits and veggies at Roy's Orchard.
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A big Porche gathering in Little Washington; lots happening at the Middleton Inn; Nevill Turner turns out to be "No Ordinary" storyteller, and Washington Volunteeer Fire and Rescue has a very success ham-and-oyster fundraiser.
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Refresh your face and your fridge without leaving Sperryville; terrific coverage of Rappahannock County in the Examiner and The Washington Post.
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In the photo at left above, the Amissville United Methodist Men made more than 50 gallons of apple butter the traditional way, with Bobby Smith, left, and Lou Alleman here tending copper kettles over an open fire. Members of the men’s group took turns stirring for 15 hours to achieve the delicious result, which...
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Anyone who has attended the Child Care and Learning Center’s annual fall benefit auction is well acquainted with the high quality and huge quantity of food that’s served. It’s one of the main reasons people show up! For $30 on Nov. 13, guests can eat their fill, enjoy a glass of fine local wine...
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Mark Reinhardt and Laurie Smith have taken fresh to a whole new level.
It’s been nearly two years since the co-founders started their business, The Local Flavor, on the belief that knowing what you eat and where it’s grown has value. They’ve literally been trucking local produce grown predominantly in Rappahannock County to places beyond...
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More than 30 Rappahannock Lions Club members put aside whatever else they might have had to do last Thursday (Sept. 30) to make apple butter -- just as they've done for more than 30 years.
This year, because of the weather, the Rappahannock Co-op allowed them to work inside at the old apple shed,...
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Oom pah band meets the Thornton River Grille's Sunday deck party; a bike ride Oct. 2 in memory of Little Johnny; good times during last weekend's Farm Tour.
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The former Sperryville Antique Market at 3 River Lane is home to several new businesses — one about to open, another already operating and a third heading into home stretch. The historic building, which was built as an apple packing house and served as the county’s first farmers coop, is now called Rappahannock Central....
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Headwaters Foundation executive director Toni Egger says Saturday’s 13th annual “Taste of Rappahannock” fundraiser dinner-auction-social event was the most successful start in the education-funding organization’s history. And for its Barn Dance during the Farm Tour weekend, RLEP has organized an apple dessert bake-off and a panel of (lucky) judges.
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