Five more stars for The Inn at Little Washington; details of Washington's Christmas Dec. 5 festival and parade; Junior Olympics honors for two young Rappahannock runners.
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The Rapp for Nov. 25
The Rapp for Nov. 18
VDOT in Rappahannock is ready for winter; a local farm photo wins PEC's photo contest; Woodville's John Hedrick elected president of the PATC.
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The Rapp for Nov. 11
Jazz pianist Bill Harris brings some musical history to life; RCCA's annual meeting is Nov. 14; join the annual Christmas bird count; mischieviously musical Pluck performs at the Theatre.
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The Rapp for Nov. 4
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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The Rapp for Oct. 28
Halloween happenings this weekend in Sperryville and Washington, and how Shenandoah National Park's 75th anniversary celebration this year connects to its closest neighbors -- us.
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The Rapp for Oct. 14
The RCHS Quiz Bowl team gets down to work; Rappahannock artist Tom Mullany's "Forever Endeavor" cartoon series debuts in the Rappahannock News; River District Arts has a successful open house; a Peola Mills family copes with last weekend's late-night fire.
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The Rapp for Oct. 7
Fauquier Livestock Exchange moves next week's sales to Culpeper and reports the cause of last week's fire appears to have been electrical; it's harvest time at the Rappahannock County Jail; take your kids to ride and romp at the Link; Dr. Lillis will be in Washington Oct. 21 to help decode the Affordable Health...
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The Rapp for Sept. 30
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Visitors Center, which has been well-visited so far; "City Island" is RAAC's movie this Friday at the Theatre; on Saturday at the Theatre, some lovely songs by a trio of special performers; in Sperryville, Haley Fine Arts celebrates its 10th anniversary with a show by 10 artists starting...
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The Rapp for Sept. 23
Castleton Farms fall season starts with soprano Sylvia McNair's one-woman show, "Subject to Change," and the Chateauville Foundation has some complementary seats set aside for those who haven't been to the Maazels' place yet. News on the Hoophouse for the Hungry going up at Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School. And a weekened at a...
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The Rapp for Sept. 16
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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The Rapp for Sept. 9
Saturday, Sept. 11 is a big day: Reynolds Baptist Church honors Rappahannock's first-responders, Thornton Hill's point-to-point races start the fall steeplechase season and "The Tempest" comes to the Theatre at Washington.
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The Rapp for Sept. 2
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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The Rapp for August 26
Truck won; thanks to many Tom Barber of Richardsville (here with wife, Cindy) was the lucky winner of the 2010 Ford Ranger pickup truck given away Saturday night by the Flint Hill Fire Department at its annual carnival. Janet Woodward of Amissville won the black angus beef. Thanks to everyone who came out to...
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The Rapp for August 12
Details of the upcoming Flint Hill Carnival, school orientation news, a medicinal plants workshop, hay-hauling relief and a brush with Hollywood at Ballard's.
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The Rapp for August 5
Snow -- or Snowball, the albino deer -- in Harris Hollow, and black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's Front Royal conservation center.
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The Rapp for July 29
AT&T might be considering cell towers in Rappahannock County; the Browns of Culpeper help the Food Pantry with livestock donations.
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The Rapp for July 22
The passing of Amissville 'cornerstone' Paul Poling; the impressive showing of Rappahannock County's 4-H Club at the Culpeper-Madison-Rappahannock Farm Show; a Hospice benefit July 31-Aug. 1 kicks off a new Rappahannock 'Artisanal Wineries Trail'
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The Rapp for July 15
Top basketmakers at the Culpeper-Madison-Rappahannock Farm Show; more work (and more play for you) at the Castleton Festival; local 12-and-under team heads to the state baseball tournament; and more.
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The Rapp for July 8
A fab Fourth, "little" Washington's sure-to-be-the-next-great cartoonist Thomas Mullany, news of a small new vineyard and a large old yard sale.
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A Rappahannock Fourth in Sperryville (and a patriotic reading in Washington), plus news of two wineries' achievements with Google and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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A senior prank, a junior who's headed to Boston for a summer theatre program, John Jackson's Rappahannock blues and a RappFLOW cleanup along the Thornton River at the Link.
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Rapp's Farm-to-Table is a national model; a Hunt and Habitat golf tournament; a RappCats event; more.
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Buy a reproduction of a Rappahannock County courthouse desk and help the Food Pantry and Free Clinic; an antique and garden show worth a visit this weekend.
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Updates on the Sperryville July Fourth Celebration, an upcoming visit by guitarist Laurence Juber to the Theatre, and the latest on this summer's Castleton Festival.
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Calendar items -- including those you can submit to us online || Rae auctions off everything || You can be an extra in a film being shot in the county || Farm-to-Table news
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A Tucker Hill retrospective at Caulfield Gallery; frost damages some vineyards; this year's Rappahannock Evening View benefit has a distinctly local flavor.
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The Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department is looking for a few good underwriters to help put on its fourth annual Rappahannock County July Fourth Celebration, and the new Visitors Center is hoping to train more than a few good volunteeers on May 12.
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The details of the Rappahannock Evening View benefit for RCCA, a vegetable garden for the county jail and informational Earth Day shopping bags created by students studying endangered species.
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An opportunity to learn from Farm-to-Table students, a prestigious volunteer award for a Sperryville man, Miss Rappahannock and more.
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Go, Gavin, Go Gavin Jenkins, an 11-year- old Rappahannock County Elementary School fifth-grader, has a dream of becoming a professional automobile race driver, and this year he is on his way to accomplishing his dream. As a dirt track go-kart driver, Gavin won the Capital City Speedway Championship for his class at this, his...
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White’s winning performance Michelle “Mimi” White, of Flint Hill, won first place for her flute solo at the Virginia Lions’ regional Bland Music Contest last month in Gainesville. Her rendition of “La Flute de Pan” qualified her for the Lions’ District Contest, encompassing northern Virginia, on April 16 in Alexandria. Two judges gave White...
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Editor’s Note: This article is an April Fool’s Day parody. Not a word of it is true. Inn adds drive-through The Inn at Little Washington announced this week that it had added a 24-hour drive-through service, tentatively called “EsCarGo,” that would allow its sophisticated and urbane dinner guests to sample the Inn’s renowned menu...
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RCHS athletic director to be replaced; a day of Food Pantry fund-raising; Theatre sees Redd -- jazzmen Chuck and Robert.
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Bach to the Theatre . . . To celebrate the 325th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, consider heading to the Theatre at Washington this Sunday for another in its series of Smithsonian at Little Washington events: Harpsichordist Kenneth Slowik will play Bach’s monumental “Goldberg Variations.” The program, which starts at 3...
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Rapp Notes
New Sperryville cafe? Heard on country lanes: a new Sperryville cafe might be in the offing. Not just any cafe — but an Artist Cafe in the old Coop building as part of the Rappahannock Farm and Art market. The Cafe is expected to open this spring and will initially serve coffee (e.g. lattes),...
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Rapp Notes: St. Patrick’s in Sperryville, and two films Rapp it up
Erin go . . . Sperryville The Rappahannock Lions Club’s second annual Rappahannock County St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Celebration will be held in Sperryville this year. The parade goes off at 11 a.m. March 13, followed at noon by a traditional Irish lunch and entertainment at The Link. The lunch will have an...
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