50 years agoMay 3, 1962 Graduation fever is mounting each day in the Senior Class at RCHS. Now that the class play which was presented Friday evening is over and was such a smash hit, they can relax and enjoy the other activities planned for them. The Senior girls, 18 strong, were accompanied by...
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Down Memory Lane for Feb. 9
Down Memory Lane for Feb. 2
50 years agoApril 26, 1962 Hillsdale Drive-In Theatre located on Route 211 west of Washington will open for the season on Friday, May 11. According to B.R. Armel, owner, the opening feature will be “Gone With the Wind,” which will play Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 11-12-13. The snack bar will be open for...
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Down Memory Lane for Jan. 26
50 years agoApril 12, 1962 The town of Washington has equipped a playground in the lot behind the post office for the children of the area. Swings, seesaws and sliding-board have been erected for their use. This equipment has been carefully installed and situated as safely as possible, however, the town assumes no responsibility...
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Down Memory Lane for Jan. 19
50 years ago: April 5, 1962 Five Rappahannock Future Homemakers, Gloria Durden, Jo Ann Fox, Linda Beahm, Bonnie Brown and Ruth Ann Clark, and their instructor, Miss Betty Blanton, recently visited Sunset Haven Nursing Home near Culpeper and carried favors for the patients’ trays. These favors and the visit are part of the FHA project...
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Down Memory Lane for Jan. 12
50 years ago: March 29, 1962 Ned Johnson’s 13-month-old bull, Royal Bird, topped all Angus in price at last week’s R.O.P. Bull sale held at Culpeper Enterprises. He brought $1,535.00 and went to Allendale, S.C. According to James F. Massie, Rappahannock member of the Northern Virginia Feeder Pig Sale, last Monday’s sale was the best...
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Down Memory Lane for Dec. 29
50 years agoMarch 15, 1962 Only one traffic accident resulting from last week’s snowstorm was reported on Friday afternoon, March 9. According to W.A. Buntin, State Police, a utility truck owned by Virginia Telephone and Telegraph Company was struck by a farm tractor on Route 211 two miles east of Washington. The tractor, a ’59...
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Headlines from the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago — plus a photo from the attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The headlines from the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from out of the attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The headlines from the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the attic files.
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Down Memory Lane for April 7
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
An especially poignant photo from Out of the Attic -- Elizabeth Taylor at the races at Thornton Hill -- and headlines from 50, 25 and 10 years ago in the Rappahannock News.
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Down Memory Lane for March 24
Headlines from the Rappahannock News from 50, 25 and 10 years ago.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Rappahannock News stories from 50 and 25 years ago, and a photo from the attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Rappahannock News stories from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, and a photo from the attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for March 3
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Feb. 24
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Feb. 17
Headlines from the pages of the Rappahannock News 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
Rappanannock News headlines from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, plus a picture from the attic files.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
A selection of stories from the Rappahannock News of 50 and 25 years ago, plus a photo from the Attic.
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Down Memory Lane
The news from editions of the Rappahannock News from 50, 25 and 10 years ago.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The news from editions of the Rappahannock News from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, and a photo from Out of the Attic.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
The news from 50, 25 and 10 years ago, as published in the Rappahannock News.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Jan. 6
50 years ago January 19, 1961 On Friday, Jan. 13, the Republican dinner meeting at Cab Inn was well attended. After a delicious dinner was served by Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Thompsen, and the regular business was conducted, including the reading of a letter from Richard Nixon, a very informative speech was made...
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Down Memory Lane for Dec. 30
A selection of stories from the Rappahannock News of 50, 25 and 10 years ago.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic
50 years ago January, 5, 1961 The Rappahannock Rescue Squad met Jan. 2 at the fire house with 13 members present and Capt. Frank Huff presiding. After the reading and approval of minutes, a report was given on the last dance sponsored by the squad and held at Sperryville. Proceeds from the dance and...
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Down Memory Lane for Dec. 16
50 years ago December 22, 1960 Rappahannock High School girls and boys both were victorious in the first conference, District Nine, Group II, basketball game when they played Warrenton Friday night on the Warrenton court. For the girls, Shirley Brown was high scorer with 22 points. The annual Christmas luncheon of the Rappahannock Garden...
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Out of the Attic/Down Memory Lane for Dec. 9
10 years ago: County Attorney Peter Luke and County Administrator John McCarthy reported that the Sprint PCS cell tower application is still on hold, and that their appeal before the board of zoning appeals of the zoning administrator decisions regarding their application has been continued at their request, until Dec. 27.
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Down Memory Lane/Out of the Attic for Dec. 2
50 years ago December 8, 1960 Rappahannock County supervisors held their regular December meeting on Wednesday the 7th with Chairman E. M. Jones presiding. Present were Supervisors L.H. Luttrell, Herbert Foster, E.M. Estes, and H. B. Wood. D. G. Wilfong of the Division of Forestry and Raymond Johnson, forest warden for Rappahannock, made a...
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Out of the Attic/Down Memory Lane
50 years ago December 1, 1960 Lyle Updike, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Updike near Washington Va., won second place in the 4-H Livestock Judging Contest, held in connection with the International Livestock Exposition at Chicago. He judged classes of beef cattle, swine and sheep last Friday and on Saturday received...
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50 years ago November 24, 1960 Thirty deer have been checked in at game checking stations in Rappahannock County since Monday morning when the hunting season opened. At Payne’s Garage in Washington the following deer were reported: Robert M. Collier, Falls Church, 9 pt.; Charles F. Baldwin, Washington, 8 pt.; Roy W. Clatterbuck, Washington,...
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50 years ago November 17, 1960 Washington Rescue Squad met Thursday, Nov. 10 and reorganized under the name of Rappahannock Rescue Squad since it covers a greater part of the county. The captain, Frank Huff, presided at the meeting with 11 members present. A 1961 Ford station wagon, fully equipped for use as an...
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50 years ago November 10, 1960 The Virginia Teachers Association Convention closed its 79th annual session in Richmond on Friday. Rev. Martin Luther King of Alabama closed the Friday session with an address. Mrs. Julia Boddie was a delegate from Rappahannock County Teachers Association to the convention. Also from Rappahannock were the following teachers...
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Rena Mae Pullen, 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pullen of Washington, won the Cherry Pie Contest held at Clarke County High School in Berryville. By baking the best cherry pie in the competition she will represent Virginia at the National Contest in Chicago on Feb. 22. The winner will go to Washington...
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Blue Ridge Fruit Growers Cooperative at Sperryville -- processors of famous Skyline Drive Brand apple juice -- has installed a new press at the plant for extracting the juice from the apples. Irvin R. Kilby, as production manager and technologist, is responsible for sample checks on vacuum temperature, fill, acid content, soluble solids,...
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50 years ago October 20, 1960 Mr. “Buck” Brown of the Lee Highway Garage, has made and donated to Rappahannock County High School, three volleyball net supports. These supports are constructed of used automobile wheels complete with inflated tires. They hold the uprights, which in turn hold the nets. The three heavy durable fixtures...
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50 years ago October 13, 1960 Miss Dorothy Wood, a former resident of Rappahannock County now living in Las Cruces, N.M., has been awarded the New Mexico Delta Kappa Gamma special scholarship, which she will use for doctoral study in the field of elementary education at the University of Denver in Colorado. Miss Wood,...
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50 years ago September 29, 1960 Cletus Printz and his son, William Printz, are developing an 11 1/2 acre subdivision known as Jackson Acres in Amissville, Va. The lots of approximately a half acre have been marked off and construction of the first building is under way. This house, Westwood, is a six-room dwelling...
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50 years ago September 29, 1960 Chester Gap, once referred to as a sleepy little community, sitting high atop a mountain peak in the Blue Ridge, between Warren and Rappahannock counties, no longer fits the description. Since the opening of the post office there in 1954 in the country store owned and operated by...
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50 Years Ago September 22, 1960 A 21 inch, 4 pound 7 ounce bass caught by Clyde Burkhart of Front Royal, Saturday, Sept. 10 in the South Fork of the Shenandoah River is to date the largest fish entered in the contest sponsored by Bill’s Sporting Goods Store in Front Royal. The fish, caught...
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50 years ago September 15, 1960 Open house at Rappahannock County High School will be held Sunday, Sept. 18 from 2 until 6 p.m. Everyone interested in bring shown through the building is invited to come. Teachers and some pupils will conduct visitors through the school. Refreshments will be served, with Mrs. Glenna Bennett,...
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