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This week's headlines include: Caretaker pleads guilty, bond revoked || Local races uncontested this fall || The Rapp for June 13 || The pasture-powered network || Town weighs menu for B&B dinners || Editorial: It’s about time || and more . . .
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By Tuesday night’s deadline, the Rappahannock County Registrar of Voters had received petitions for just one candidate for each of the supervisor and school board positions up for grabs this November.
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Get into SNP for free this weekend, sign up for summer camps, meet the director of "Copperhead," attend a bee forum and learn how valuable those busy little insects are, audition for RAAC's new play and join the First Friday festivities at Laurel Mills in this week's Rapp column.
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Fifty years . . . a half century . . . that’s a long time! Any half-century anniversary – marking the passage of such a big chunk of time – sparks big questions, even for once-inattentive high school history students.
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After working quickly through a final round of $158,747 in cuts, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors approved a $22.24 million budget for 2013-2014 at their monthly meeting Monday afternoon (June 3).
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Rappahannock County’s recycling options will be expanding shortly, as the board of supervisors approved a decision to continue and grow the county’s partnership with Updike Industries at its meeting Monday afternoon (June 3).
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Washington’s newest addition isn’t another restaurant or bed and breakfast. Instead, it’s the first of its kind within the town’s borders – the Little Washington Wellness & Spa.
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The many "to-do" options available this weekend, when and where to admire the Castleton Artists in Training (for free), checking in with the award-winning Knights of Columbus council at St. Peter's, and what to do on SNP's Neighbor's Day (June 18) in this week's Rapp column.
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When the more approachable and courtly Robert Hurt became Rappahannock County’s representative to Congress, many here rejoiced. For he was not Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was our representative until the 5th District was gerrymandered even more than it already had been. But it's "the same old, same old."
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Headlines in this week's Rappahannock News, on newsstands, mailboxes and (and inboxes) through next Wednesday: 6.5-percent increase in budget: done || Recycling options to expand || The Rapp for June 6 || All is wellness at new Little Washington Spa || A tournament for the Inn’s ‘Tournant’ chef || Editorial: Bad news from Big...
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The Rappahannock County School Board approved a lease-purchase agreement that will bring five new Thomas school buses to town in time for the 2013-2014 school year – the final budget for which the board also adopted at its work session last Friday morning (May 24).
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While those who live here know that Rappahannock County has changed much in 10 years, on the surface – say, from your car on one of our two U.S. highways – it looks just exactly like it always has. The same is true of the Griffin Tavern, which turns 10 years old this month.
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After three months of searching following the early departure in February of former Rappahannock County Public Schools superintendent Aldridge Boone for North Carolina, RCPS found its new superintendent in Donna O. Matthews.
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RAAC's final movie is "Lincoln," RLEP hosts a bee forum, Paul Reisler & A Thousand Questions perform at the State Theatre, RDA debuts its new exhibit, "Spontaneity!", the Taste of Rappahannock is set Sept. 7 at the Miller Barn, and more in this week's Rapp column.
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For the class of 2013 at Rappahannock County High School and Wakefield Country Day School, commencement exercises are, as for all graduates, a time of rejoicing. Fifty years ago, my high school class of 1963 rejoiced, too. Thought-provoking bookends, they are.
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The week's headlines: 5 buses, 1 school budget approved || New superintendent finds Rapp a natural fit || Griffin celebrates 10 highly functional years || The Rapp for May 30 || Wild Ideas: They’re not from outer space, but . . .
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The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors considered a $158,747 reduction in its proposed $22.5 million budget for 2013-2014 at a work session last Wednesday night (May 15) – cuts that would shave another cent off what would otherwise be a 5-cent increase in the real estate tax rate.
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While most Rappahannockers probably can’t tell the difference between a nosegrind and a darkslide, anyone who’s interested now has the opportunity to learn, with the unveiling of the county’s newest addition – a brand new skatepark.
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Where do the talented Castleton Festival performers stay when they're not on stage? Either at one of Castleton Farm’s own properties or the permanent home of generous locals, who routinely open their guest rooms and cottages for up to six weeks to welcome in relative strangers.
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Our monthly Fourth (Estate) Friday meeting, Coterie and Narmada's weekend offerings, acoustic guitarist Laurence Juber's return to the Theatre, Middle Street Gallery opens its "Beauty Around Us" exhibit and RAAC's opening casting call for all area women for "Love, Loss and What I Wore" in this week's Rapp column.
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How best to describe that sound now bringing the Rappahannock hills alive? Humming? Droning? Whirring? Buzzing? Whining? It's not Congress arguing over the farm bill but the sound of something more in the natural rhythm of things: The Brood II cicadas, which emerge from their underground hermitage every 17 years to propagate.
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Rappahannock County High School’s varsity girls soccer players made history in Monday night’s (May 20) Bull Run District quarterfinals match when they defeated Madison County, 1-0, in a hard-fought battle on the Mountaineers’ own field.
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The week's headlines: Board works on reducing tax rise to 4 cents || Bond revoked, murder suspect re-hospitalized || At Castleton, it’s homes away from home || The Rapp for May 23 || Rappahannock Park, ramped up and ready || Editorial: The sound you hear, the food you eat || Massie’s goal in Madison...
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After the supervisors trimmed about $146,000 from the proposed 2013-2014 school budget earlier last week, the Rappahannock County School Board decided in a work session Thursday night (May 9) to at least leave intact a 3-percent salary increase for teachers and staff, while eyeing a way to replace 10 of the school's aging buses.
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At its monthly meeting Monday (May 13) the Washington Town Council agreed to support RappFLOW’s cleanup project at Avon Hall, filled a vacancy on the Architectural Review Board and considered allowing bed and breakfasts to serve dinner to non-boarders.
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Whatever term you use – the law-enforcement phrase “lockdown” or the school superintendent’s preferred “shelter in place” – both of Rappahannock County’s schools were in the middle of it for about 30 minutes two weeks ago.
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Rappahannock's annual Relay for Life this weekend, "Uncle Vanya" takes the stage at the RAAC Theatre, Canadian pianist Audrey Andrist returns to the Theatre at Washington, the Public House is throwing its first summer festival, R.H. Ballard is honored in a reader's poll and Spicy Plum Chutney makes waves in this week's Rapp column.
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The temperature has gone wildly up and down the past week or so in Rappahannock County – the subject of much local conversation, though par for the course for a Virginia springtime. Meanwhile, another measurement reached a record high a few days ago but went largely unnoticed, much less remarked upon.
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At the annual scholarship awards assembly held May 2 at the Rappahannock County High School, 32 RCHS seniors received scholarships worth more than $70,000.
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This week's headlines: School board eyes 10 buses || Gun report, social media post lock down schools || Prosecutors seek to revoke bond in Deal murder case || The Rapp for May 16 || Town funds cleanup, weighs B&B changes || Editorial: 'It's scary!' || and lots more.
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To the apparent dissatisfaction of many in the crowd, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors voted Monday afternoon (May 6) to take the school board’s proposed budget increase down a notch (or a cent), approving only $300,000 of the requested $445,000 increase to last year's budget.
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Three things that will be covered, or recovered, in Rappahannock County soon: stray cats, secondary roads and the cost of emergency medical transportation, as the board of supervisors approved all three at its evening meeting Monday night.
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Borrowing a line from the pop star Madonna, Charlotte Laing is a “material girl . . . living in a material world.” Except her material is cotton print, broadcloth, velvet, brocade, batik, calico, denim and silk, and she creates quilted treasures from the pieces.
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"Caveboy" takes center stage at RAAC's Friday at the Library series, TRG offers an all-day Mother's Day menu, SVFD plans its next July 4 celebration, RDA hosts a studio stroll, pianist Audrey Andrist returns to the Theatre, Narmada hosts a fundraiser and wine-making class and the NPCF gets accredited in this week's Rapp.
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The core mission of the Rappahannock News has always been – and will continue so – to report local news, provide useful information and provide a forum for discussions on issues important to Rappahannock residents. But while our purpose remains steady, the paper itself, like the community it covers, is constantly changing.
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Rappahannock County High School took four varsity track athletes to the annual Dogwood Track Classic at Lannigan Field at the University of Virginia last Saturday (May 4): seniors Trey Swindler and Case Kramer, junior Davis Sheffield and freshman Julia Wood.
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This week's headlines: School budget approved, minus $145K || Covered: Cats, costs of roads and rescues || Quilter Laing 'sews it up' for the Pantry || The Rapp column for May 9 || Editorial: The new News || and more.
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In its final public hearing on the 2013-2014 school budget, the supervisors heard a flood of public opinion, both for and against the school board’s proposed $12.61 million budget, as a record 38 speakers lined up at the microphone Monday at Rappahannock County Elementary School.
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“You ain’t nothing but a hound dog” will echo across the meadow of the Washington School House on Saturday morning, May 11, when a pet parade signals the start of Food Pantry Day in Rappahannock County.
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Rappahannock County is the 37th healthiest of Virginia’s 133 counties, according to a yearly health ranking provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The rankings track a number of different health-related statistics, including mortality, morbidity, clinical care and social and environmental factors for every county in Virginia.
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