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Rappahannock County High School's varsity girls soccer team came away with a 1-0 win at Madison County in the quarterfinals of the Bull Run District tournament — the first time in more than a decade that the Lady Panthers bested the arch-rival Mountaineers in a district tournament.
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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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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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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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For the sixth consecutive year, Rappahannock County High School’s Quiz Bowl team traveled to Washington, D.C., for the taping of “It’s Academic,” the longest-running televised quiz show in the world. The Panthers brought home second place.
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Serving up excellence Rappahannock resident Matt Beck, a member of the kitchen staff at the Blue Rock Inn, distinguished himself in the field of culinary competition last month. Beck, 17, from Boston, placed second in the 49th annual SkillsUSA State Competition for Culinary Arts held in Richmond April 20. He was awarded an annual...
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The RCHS JV softball team finally broke into the win column last night by sweeping a doubleheader from visiting Manassas Park. A report from Patrick Alther.
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Lady Panthers varsity soccer players have been on a victory prowl. With recent back-to-back wins, they’ve increased their overall record to 4-2. Also, a Wakefield varsity girls' basketball player is named to the all-state team and an update on the rest of the Wakefield sports teams.
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Rappahannock’s Junior Panther (JP) girls soccer kicked off its season with two March games and a balanced record – one win, one loss.
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In our continuing efforts to avoid our historically stupendously incompetent race marshaling, for the first time ever, the Rappahannock County Recreational Facilities Authority has retained professional race management services.
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At its public work session Tuesday night (March 19), the Rappahannock County School Board voted to adopt a formal budget proposal totalling $12,618,208 – a $445,932 increase over the 2012-13 budget.
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Lady Panther soccer players descended upon the Hawks of Skyline High School in Front Royal last Friday (March 15) to net a solid 2-0 win in the first game of their regular season. Both goals came courtesy of Rappahannock County High School’s Michelle “Mimi” White.
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I am writing in response to the letter to the editor by Kim Love and someone else from outside Rappahannock County last week about fan behavior at sports contests . It is obvious to anyone who attends these events that the school board...
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In a competition of 22 regional concert bands at Winchester’s James Wood Middle School on March 8, the Rappahannock County Elementary School Concert Band scored an “excellent” rating in its rendition of four pieces.
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RCHS freshman wrestler David Smoot scores big, the RCHS band continues its winning ways, WCDS senior Rachel DuMez wins a prestigious scholarship and sixth grader Rachel Cieplak makes the choir in this week's School & Sports news.
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I’ve attended Rappahannock County High School sporting events for several years now and I am increasingly dismayed with the rudeness of many fellow spectators. I know most of our parents and fans, and they are all good people who make Rappahannock County a special place. People from other schools who don’t know that are...
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Wakefield senior Marc Cugnon is named a Coca-Cola scholar, Lauren Light shows off her trumpet skills and RCHS demonstrates its skills in welding, photography and Latin in this week's School & Sports news.
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Wakefield's "We the People" and science fair winners, college acceptances for the class of 2013, athletes of the month and updates on varsity sports in this Wakefield-centric school news.
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Cuts were made and a revised budget developed Tuesday night (Feb. 19) at a Rappahannock County School Board budget work session. In about 90 minutes, the board trimmed about $200,000 from the working budget, which is still $417,000 over last year's $12.01 million budget.
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The many features of Fourth Friday, the fortuitous birth of the Castleton Chamber Players, the Bland Music Contest winners, "Argo" at the Theatre, Jackie Labovitz's "Understory," growing an edible paradise and the return of donkey basketball in this week's Rapp.
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Three Panther wrestlers traveled with their teammates to Salem, Va., last week to compete in the Virginia State Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, Feb 16.
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Regarding your “Fox penning bill dies in House subcommittee” report last week: How can penning a fox in an enclosure and turning dogs loose to train them to chase foxes, be called a “sport?” From what I’ve read the fox usually gets killed, but that’s just an “accepted consequence” of the “sport.” And this...
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Regarding the letter last week titled “School board, govern thyselves,” I would be remiss in my role as Rappahannock County High School athletic director not to address the concerns expressed regarding our schools’ athletic programs. We compete in our district against schools that are, at a minimum, twice our size and, most of the...
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A House subcommittee Tuesday killed a bill that would have made it illegal to hold competitions in which dogs hunt foxes or coyotes in an enclosed area.
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In the fight of the season, Panther wrestlers proved themselves when they brought home three Region B medals from the 2013 regional wrestling competition in Strasburg last weekend, earning three a trip to this weekend's state tournament in Salem.
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Rappahannock County High School’s wrestlers took their prowl to Clarke County to confront seven other schools in last Saturday’s Bull Run District tournament and returned with several personal triumphs (and a seventh-place team finish).
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It was not just love at first sight; it was adoration, idolization and devotion. Ben Jones was five years old when he saw the picture of Stan Musial on the cover of a sports magazine. In his famous crouch, his bat high, he was the picture of relaxed concentration.
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The Panther Quiz Bowl team takes third place, RCHS graduates make the dean's list and Wakefield sports teams get their weekly update in School & Sports.
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Courtesy photo It hasn’t been the most winning season for Rappahannock County High School’s girls’ and boys’ varsity basketball teams this year, but student athletes at smaller schools tend to collect moments more than pay strict attention to the win/loss columns – and we thought this moment, as Grayson Love jumps and shoots over...
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New VHSL conferences, 4.0 college GPA's and a Wakefield sports update in this week's School & Sports news.
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Three victories for the RCHS Quiz Bowl team, Dylan Hitt's record-breaking wrestling win and new honor society inductees at R-MA in this week's School & sports news.
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Middle Street Gallery's new "Artists and Friends" exhibit, Wakefield's new partnership with the Public House and RCHS wrestler Dylan Hitt's 100th victory in this week's Rapp.
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Lady Panthers ride the tide Lady Panthers’ varsity basketball season is well underway. The girls came away from their early efforts with one victory and a series of losses, but turned the tide this week with a dramatic win. At home on Tuesday, Rappahannock County High School hosted Fresta Valley Christian Academy and came...
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Rappahannock County High School 2009 graduate Dean Hogan is no stranger to hard work and stressful schedules. But, as his undergraduate career comes to a close, there is no winding down for this student-athlete.
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Photos by Crystal Smith At the Rappahannock County PTO’s first-ever Alumni Basketball Tournament last month, the crowds came out to cheer on the county’s many court-meisters, including the two winning squads: the Men’s Gray Team, sponsored by Shaw’s Services and Burgers ‘N Things, consisting of (front row, from left) Paul Hitt, captain Jason Baldwin,...
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To learn the story of their own backyards, a group of Rappahannock County High School juniors recently trekked the hallowed ground of historic sites in Rappahannock County, accompanied by noted historian Art Candenquist and senior Robert Yowell.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the “Old Diz” Americana musical as presented by Ben “Cooter” Jones and company at The Theatre at Little Washington Nov. 17. When I was growing up in Tennessee in the 1950s, I had only one diversion from playing baseball, fishing, and farm work on Saturday afternoons – namely, watching Dizzy Dean...
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Statistics may show that newspapers are on the decline, but you’d never know that from looking at Rappahannock County's schools.
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Fourth Friday notes (our public meeting and Sperryville's shop op), lots of alumni expected to hit the court for the PTO's first-ever Alumni Basketball Tournament, a lot of Christmas in Little Washington, Kid Pan's free concert Nov. 30 and the Theatre's jazz guitar virtuosos Dec. 1.
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Last Saturday (Nov. 10) turned out to be an especially lovely day for Rappahannock County High School’s Julia Wood, who finished third among 129 young women in the VHSL state cross country championships and earned a bronze medal.
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