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Terrence Johnson believes that establishing a winning football program at Rappahannock County High School does not start with the size of a player or even the number of players on the roster. “No matter what, you have to have a winning attitude,” said Johnson, who will debut as the Panthers’ head varsity coach Friday...
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After saying his good-byes to his former Rappahannock County High School teachers, Joe Vickers strolled to the parking lot and popped the door to the family van. A smile came over his face. “Inside,” he said, “is my life for the next three months.” Clothing for every kind of weather. A laptop computer. Sheets,...
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School is back in session, and the harbingers of victory are back on the volleyball court at Rappahannock County High School. With a 3-0 match win on Tuesday (Aug. 24), the varsity and JV volleyball Panthers soundly defeated the Culpeper Blue Devils at Rapp’s first home game of the season. Although sports practices officially...
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The following is excerpted from the speech Rappahannock County Public Schools Superintendent Aldridge A. Boone delivered to the school division’s staff on Aug. 16: In 1895, Booker T. Washington said, “In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential...
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New teachers, graduates, post-graduates and award-winners around the county.
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Success. How do we love thee? Let us count the ways. Within a family, success often comes to siblings in predictable order and with time separating their stories. Tyler and Tessa Crews are a brother-sister anomaly. Tyler Crews, a Rappahannock County High School 2010 graduate, is anticipating his move to the University of North...
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The Rappahannock County School Sports Association (RCSSA) is raffling off a brand new Kubota RTV500 camouflage utility vehicle on Oct. 23 at the Link in Sperryville. Three hundred tickets for the grand prize vehicle will be sold at $100 each. Four second place prizes of $500 each will be awarded. The vehicle will be...
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Rappahannock County Public Schools have released the list of school bus routes for the 2010-2011 school year. The new school year begins Tuesday, Aug. 24. Students are urged to be at their pickup points at least 15 minutes early the first day of school. Some bus numbers and route descriptions have been altered from...
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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 Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) School Board’s Aug. 10 meeting signaled the seamless start of a new school year with both a new superintendent and a new high school principal. “Rappahannock County is a wonderful place to live and raise a child,” said Dr. Aldridge A. Boone, the new superintendent, in a prepared...
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Smack! Crunch! Thud-thud! Ah, the sounds of fall sports practices at Rappahannock County High School.
The Lady Panther varsity volleyball players are already smacking the white leather ball in serving and hitting drills. The football players' helmets are crunching in high-energy drills. And the footsteps of cross country runners are thudding past onlookers as they...
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New teachers were welcomed Monday at the Rappahannock County Public Schools’ orientation session. One thing they have in common is plenty of energy as well as enthusiasm and smiles as they prepare to begin a new school year on Tuesday, Aug. 24. Front row, from left: Jocelyn Alexander, Amy Lilly, Dawn Phillips, Jan McKinney....
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Morgan Minyard, an Amissville resident and 2010 graduate of Highland School, recently completed the requirements to letter in equestrian sports through the United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) High School Equestrian Athletes program. Minyard has been participating in the new USEF program during her senior year. During this time she balanced her riding, showing and...
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What calls students to their career destinies after they graduate? That is the great mystery that makes commencement so exciting. For Colleen Daly, RCHS class of 2008, her call was to go west -- to Whittier College in California, to be specific.
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Congratulations to Skyler Owens. We were proud to see the nice article on her in the Rappahannock News. We enjoyed having her as an enthusiastic seventh and eighth grader at Belle Meade School. It was a pleasure mentoring her as she strove to integrate her intelligence, her desire to shine and accelerate and her...
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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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Ooh, shiny. Well, not exactly shiny, but Rappahannock County’s school district is showing signs of life — with new superintendent Aldridge Boone, high school principal Robert Stump, athletic director Jamie Harris and football coach Terrence Johnson all starting work this month. At the school board level, the signs of a change could be summarized,...
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Energy. Enthusiasm. And an authentic smile that reveals contagious excitement. Coach Terrence Johnson, Rappahannock County High School's new head football coach, began his duties by holding a team meeting on Monday, July 19.
The first noticeable effect of the excitement: school officials say some 50 students have signed up for fall football this summer, more...
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School is not out for the summer at Rappahannock County High School. In fact, the five-week summer session is still going on. It began on June 28 and continues until July 29. Summer school students meet Monday through Thursday from 8:30 to 11:30 and get their lessons through EdOptions, an online service. This year’s...
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Area residents graduate from Virginia Tech Four area residents received degrees during commencement exercises at Virginia Tech on May 14. Ryan Hoban, Amissville, received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Jason Smith, Viewtown, received a bachelor of science in Aerospace Engineering degree cum...
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Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly has two upcoming sports camps in addition to an equestrian camp. A premier soccer camp run by Wakefield Boys Middle School Soccer Coach Lavonne Adkins from July 26 to July 29 will be held at the school from 9 a.m. to noon. It’s open to boys and girls...
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Fourteen-year-old Skyler Owens is taking a great leap forward by skipping the last two years of high school to enroll at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton this fall.
By forgoing the pomp and circumstance of receiving a high school diploma to start college early, she could be getting a bachelor's degree at an age when...
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Summertime is not down time for RCHS athletics. Coaches are still training, and athletes are still collecting awards.
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Jesse Palmer is about to embark on a most amazing adventure that will take the college student to Japan. Palmer has been a student at Stanford University in faraway California in the years since graduating from Rappahannock High School in 2007. “Stanford was simply an opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” he said. Attending the...
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Amissville medics gain national recognition for 20-plus years of EMT-paramedic service; rugby players sought; forage and beef tour; local graduate and honors students.
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Last week, a summer-slumbering RCHS school building opened its doors for a benefit performance of the comedic play “Homework Eats Dog and Other Woeful Tales” by Alan Haehnel. Once again, the Rappahannock community pooled resources to support one of its own.
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Rappahannock County High School graduates often leave their close-knit environs to make their mark in the world. Many times, reports of their successes do not filter back. But some pause to let the folks back home know how they're doing.
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Rappahannock County High School culinary arts student Megan Clark attended and competed at the SkillsUSA National Leadership Conference June 21-25 in Kansas City, Mo. Megan is a junior at Madison County High School, but through the cost-sharing/cost-saving agreement between Madison and Rappahannock counties, she attends culinary arts classes at Rappahannock County High School.
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Double your education, double your fun! Those old ads for Doublemint gum come to mind when reporting on Rappahannock's Riggleson sisters, Krista Marie and Ashley Reta.
Ashley Reta was the valedictorian in this year's graduating class from Rappahannock County High School (RCHS). That honor goes to the student with the highest grade point average.
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Some 125 friends, family, and Rappahannock County Public Schools board members and staff gathered to honor and express gratitude to Dr. Robert (Bob) Chappell for his 44 years as an educator.
Chappell retired as superintendent of Rapphannock schools at the completion of the 2009-2010 school year.
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The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal and the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum in Winchester are offering a day-camp experience that's just right for kids who love animals, the outdoors and playing in the dirt.
For two weeks in August, the camp’s theme -- “What lives where, and why?” --...
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Last Saturday (June 12) saw nearly 80 graduates from Rappahannock County High School (RCHS) receive their long-awaited diplomas in ceremonies at the RCHS auditorium.
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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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Rappahannock County High School athletes were treated to a star-studded annual spring athletic awards ceremony on Monday, June 7. The Panther players received honors, applause and accolades from their coaches and leaders.
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Rappahannock County High School said goodbye June 15 to a pair of educators with a combined 65 years in teaching.
Roger Flinchum's 42 years at RCHS really began with a change of heart back in . . . well, it was a while ago. After he entered Virginia Tech's engineering school, “I discovered what...
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Upper school students, faculty, families, and friends gathered May 30 on a warm, sunny evening to congratulate the 23 Wakefield Country Day School seniors on their accomplishments and present students with awards and honors they earned during the academic year. Seventh-grade graduation and other ceremonies also were held at the school.
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Washington’s Christal Jenkins, an infant-toddler teacher at the Child Care and Learning Center, has been awarded a child development associate credential in recognition of outstanding work with infants and toddlers. The credential was awarded by the Council for Professional Recognition in Washington, D.C. The process to acquire a CDA included completing 12 credit hours...
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Culpeper Chapter #73, at a special assembly in Culpeper, recognized winning students of scholarship awards. Representing grade 12 was Austin Burdick, first place winner and recipient of a $1,000 scholarship. Grades 3 and 4 written essay winners were Abby Cole, first place and Maddison Jackson second place. Grades...
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In mid-July, Jeff Day, a history teacher at Wakefield Country Day School, will direct a special “Time Travelers” history camp. This unique experience is for rising first- through eighth-grade students. The camp will be held 8:30 to 4 daily Monday, July 19 through Friday, July 23. The cost of the camp is $290 and...
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Robert Stump now adds the job of principal of Rappahannock County High School to his resume. The Giles County native was appointed June 8 by the Rappahannock County School Board.
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