Grand Knight Bill Jarrett (left) and St. Peter’s Catholic Church pastor Father Christopher Murphy present the "Outstanding Young Man and Woman" awards.
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Photos: Outstanding young people
Photos: Vintage vehicle
Narmada Winery, like many local wineries, contracts with Harrisonburg-based Landwirt Bottling when it’s time to get its vintages into bottles.
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Photos: Fabulous finishes
The RCHS class of 2013 throws their caps in the air; star runner Julia Wood heads for a first-place state-championship finish.
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Photo: Women’s Day, family day
On the steps of the Promise Land Baptist Church in Gid Brown Hollow, at the church’s 24th Annual Women’s Day Service two Sundays ago.
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Photos: Grad-itude
Photos from the RCHS Class of 2013 graduation ceremony on May 24.
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Photos: Ruritan rewards
Rev. Maxine Crenshaw of the Amissville Ruritan Club presents two of the club’s awards to RCHS and Wakefield graduates Britt Hipple and Julia Weir.
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Photo: ‘Safari’ success
Rappahannockers Andrew and Leslie Cockburn flank Philip Strange at the annual “Summer Safari” atop the Blue Ridge last Saturday to benefit the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Shenandoah National Park Trust and Piedmont Environmental Council. A record of roughly $250,000 was raised.
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A most moving video on . . . cicadas
Return of the Cicadas from motionkicker on Vimeo.
Indiana-based filmmaker Samuel Orr has been working an a one-hour documentary on cicadas since 2007, shooting more than 600 hours of footage of the creatures that are now filling trees (and ears) throughout most of Rappahannock County. This astonishingly beautiful seven-minute short, meant to highlight Orr’s Kickstarter fundraising effort for the film, may actually bring tears to your eyes. Definitely watch it full-screen if you can.
Photo: They’re here . . .
They’re periodical cicadas, and they’re not really from outer space – they just sound that way when they start singing, which they’ll be doing for a month or so.
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Photo: DAR’s Good Citizen
Louise Eastham, left, presents Lauren Light with the Daughters of the American Revolution Culpeper Minutemen Chapter’s Good Citizen Certificate during award ceremonies at Rappahannock County High School last week.
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Photo: Grape adventures
Ann Crittenden, John Henry and Beverly and John Sullivan hosted a book signing with James Conaway at Crittenden’s and Henry’s Flint Hill home Sunday afternoon (May 26), where some 80 people gathered to hear Conaway discuss his intriguing, Napa Valley-based novel, “Nose.”
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Photo: Badge of scholarship
Lyndie R. Paul (right) recently applied for a scholarship through the Virginia Sheriff’s Association and was awarded one to attend Lord Fairfax Community College.
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Photo: Friends’ farewell
Under the rented big-top at the House on Water Street last Saturday, friends said goodbye to longtime Sperryville residents Jeanne Drevas (center) and Carl Aplin, who’ve moved to Oregon.
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Photos: Presidential visit
Virginia State Board of Education president David Foster visited Rappahannock County High School last Thursday (May 16) and was treated to a tour and presentations on the school division’s programs.
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Photo: Family outing
“Deak” Deakins of Rock Mills introduces his first grandchildren – Jeremiah of Nelson County and Wren of Woodville – to the simple pleasures, if not comfortable seating, of a good ol’ Ford tractor.
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Photo: Mooving on up
Angus youth, including Courtney Pooton of Sperryville, gathered at the 2013 National Junior Angus Association Raising the Bar Officers Training earlier this month in Blacksburg.
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Photo: Beautiful lady
A pink lady slipper orchid blooms in the wilds of Rock Mills last weekend.
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Photo: DARE to change
Nathan Corbin, a Rappahannock native who now calls Fairfax County home, delivers an emotional but upbeat talk Monday at Rappahannock County Elementary School’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program graduation ceremony. As past and current DARE officers, respectively, Jeff Brown (left) and Robbie Fincham, listened along with a roomful of fifth-graders, the sheriff and...
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Photo: Gear not! Recycle that stuff Saturday.
As a fundraiser for the Rappahannock Animal Welfare League, RAWL board members Laurie Smith and Mark Reinhardt have organized an electronics recycling drop off at RAWL’s shelter (160 Weaver Rd., Amissville, next to the landfill) from 9 to 1 this Saturday (May 18). By the time you get there, Mark, good sport that he...
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Photos: Skating closer
As part of Eagle Scout Aidan Gould’s skateboard park project at Rappahannock County Park, workers successfully poured a concrete pad last Friday and Monday; meanwhile, equipment arrived on trucks from American Ramp, and installation was to begin this week.
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Photo: Bargains for the big race
An annual yard sale for the Soap Box Derby, still known as the greatest amateur racing event in the world, was held this past Saturday to benefit the local entries in the event, including cars sponsored by the Rappahannock Elementary School, Boy Scout Troop 36, Cub Scout Pack 123, the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office...
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Photo: May Day at Scrabble
May Day, the annual celebration of spring, was attended by some 50 alumni and friends of the Scrabble School earlier this month, many bringing their children to experience a fun-packed day much like those celebrated in May from 1921 to 1968, when the school for African-American students was in operation. Kids and adults alike...
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Photo: Curriculum, enriched
The Rappahannock County Public Schools PTO recently presented a check to the Curriculum Enrichment Program (CEP) to assist the program’s mission of supporting creative and enriching (and often impromptu) learning opportunities for students. Advisory members Rosa Crocker and Jan Makela attended the PTO meeting to update members on recent CEP successes. Flanked by members,...
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Photos: Pantry pride
Photos from Rappahannock Food Pantry Day in Washington last Saturday.
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Gallery: The hats have it at Gold Cup
A few dozen fab photos by Luke Christopher of the hat contest and crowds at last Saturday's Gold Cup races at Great Meadow in Fauquier County.
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Photo: Smile!
Pictured here are some of the Rappahannock County Elementary School students who’ve completed a six-week photography workshop sponsored by the RAAC Mitchell Fund. Ray Boc, Joyce Harman and Francie Schroeder of Old Rag Photography Gallery conducted the workshop for students selected from art teacher Elizabeth Botha’s classes. The focused group here includes (top row,...
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Photos: Rappahannock Youth Basketball 2013
Photos by Cindy Sumner The Rappahannock Youth Basketball League, with a record 156 kids participating this winter and making boys and girls age-group teams possible for the first time, held its tournament recently; here are photos of the winning and all-tournament teams and the tournament’s most valuable players.
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Photo: Chicken joke
The small, makeshift sign at the county landfill in Amissville actually points toward the RAWL dog shelter, where for obvious reasons no chickens reside, but since it was posted recently – reportedly the discarded sign was found by Jimmy Deal, who works at the landfill – it has made more than a few people...
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Photo: Farm to school to capital
Trista Grigsby, director of nutrition services at Rappahannock County Public Schools (that’s her in the center of the back row with short dark hair) represented Rappahannock at a reception last month for the recipients of the first USDA Farm to School Planning Grants in Washington, D.C. While there, Grigsby discovered that Rappahannock’s grant, in...
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Photo: Sheriff’s Office awards
Rappahannock County Sheriff Connie C. Smith, right, congratulates (from left) deputies Taylor Yowell, Brandon Smoot, Robbie Fincham and Christopher Koglin, the four winners from the RCSO awards ceremony held last month at the courthouse. Yowell won Correctional Officer of the Year, while Smoot won Communications Officer of the Year. Fincham was awarded Overall Deputy...
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Photo: Spring’s busting out all over
Caught on camera by a passerby Tuesday afternoon, this fence-jumping bull was headed west on U.S. 211 near Rappahannock County High School, destination unknown. After head-butting a would-be wrangler’s vehicle, he left the four-lane highway and was reportedly still on his outing at dusk. Driving tip: In Rappahannock County, there are certain seriously four-wheel-drive...
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Photo: Scrabble partners
Posing last week in front of Scrabble School’s history exhibit are (from left) Rappahannock County Elementary School library media specialist Barbara Wheatley, kindergarten teachers Stephanie Beard and Pearl Barron, school psychologist Kathy Zehr Rhodes and instructional coordinator Shannon Grimsley with Scrabble School Preservation Foundation president Bob Lander. The school is scheduled to begin a...
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Photo: A fetching hatfish
Just to show that they’re also wearable, artist Janet Brome modeled one of her unique wire-frame works of art at the opening reception for her show at Washington’s R.H. Ballard Gallery, which goes on through May 12.
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Photos: The pantry’s Porsche party
More than 30 members of the First Settlers Region and Shenandoah Region chapters of the Porsche Club of America, in the area for a spring charity auction at Graves Mountain Lodge and other events last weekend, dropped by the Rappahannock Food Pantry Saturday (April 27) to deliver the food that each member had collected...
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Photo: Chard times
Chard plants await planters — that would be us — who’ll arrive in droves this Saturday at Waterpenny Farm in Sperryville, for the farm’s annual Spring Plant Sale.
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Photo: They clean up nicely
Members of the Rappahannock County Democratic Committee (from left) Henry Gorfein, Larry Hepinstall, Jed Duvall and Ralph Bates load trash they and other volunteers collected along U.S. 211 onto a pickup truck Saturday, as part of the organization’s annual spring clean-up outing.
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Photo: Hail to the chief
At the company’s annual awards banquet last Saturday at the Flint Hill fire hall, Bruce Williams, chief of the Flint Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company for 14 years (from 1998 to 2012), poses with the presentation fire axe he received from his fellow members in gratitude for the work he’s done for the...
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Photo: Empty bowls help fill shelves
Rappahannock Food Pantry director Mimi Forbes (left) accepts a check from Doris Jones of the Rappahannock Clay Collective (center) and River District Arts’ assistant art director Holly Link. The Food Pantry received $1,250 from RDA’s recent Empty Bowls project, for which members of the community were given the opportunity to glaze their own bowls,...
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Photo: Going green
Photo by Molly M. Peterson A few brief periods of rain over the past week was apparently all it took for everything to turn green throughout Rappahannock County. Add a deep blue sky and some fat, fast-moving spring clouds and you’d see pretty much what photographer Molly Peterson saw the other day in F.T....
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Photo: The next step . . .
Courtesy photo Rappahannock County High School 10th- through 12th-graders attended a college tour at George Mason University earlier this month, one of the college and trade school trips sponsored by the Headwaters Next Step career and college access program and the school’s guidance department. At George Mason, students toured the campus and dorm rooms,...
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