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Lively debate preceded the approval of Rick Thomas’s application to the Rappahannock County Board of Zoning Appeals f…
Don’t forget this evening’s (Thursday, Feb. 25, 6 to 7 p.m.) Scrabble School Black History Month Zoom presentation wi…
Sept. 1, 1966: Rappahannock’s generally quiet Harris Hollow echoed with shouts of glee and vibrated with music Saturd…
Calling Rappahannock Artists & Arts Programs! New and revised 2021 Mitchell Arts Fund Grant application and guide…
Rappahannock County Supervisor Frazier has every right to peacefully protest the results of the presidential election…
To view the agenda, visit the County's BoardDocs site:https://go.boarddocs.com/va/corva/Board.nsf/Public
Starting Monday, Gov. Ralph Northam is easing pandemic restrictions on social gatherings, entertainment venues, alcoh…
Declaring that “Lord Fairfax doesn’t represent anything we are about,” the Lord Fairfax Community College Board will …
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The $3.65 million restoration of the 143-year-old Waterloo Bridge was completed more than two months ahead of schedul…
Over the weekend local attorney David Konick sent out a flyer to Rappahannock County residents announcing that he wil…
RICHMOND — Virginia will become the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty after two bills passed both chambers of t…
A 62-acre property deep in Harris Hollow west of Washington was recently entered into conservation easement, the only…
According to Superintendent Russell Gilkison, roughly a third of the staff at Rappahannock Shenandoah Warren Regional…
If it had not been for a hive of honeybees, John R.Bourgeois may never have become the director of the “President’s O…
To shorten this story somewhat, I contacted my two sisters and my brother. I struck gold. My sister, Irene, in North …
It is hard to understate the revulsion and anger I felt when reading the commentary “Some good must come of this” by …
RICHMOND — For a second year in a row, a bill that prohibits food vendors from using plastic foam containers is up in…
Gwen: Former two-term board member, Child Care and Learning Center; three-term board member of Food Pantry; volunteer…
Rappahannock County Supervisor Frazier has every right to peacefully protest the results of the presidential election…
It is hard to understate the revulsion and anger I felt when reading the commentary “Some good must come of this” by …
I find the thesaurus ridden failure an attempt at an opinion by Ben Jones — he certainly is no lawyer which is eviden…
Apparently it was stored in the attic and fell down into a wall space which we opened. Was an eerie feeling being so …
Rappahannock County is now classified as being at Extremely High Risk concerning the coronavirus. But, at the Februar…
Was reading today's story about the broadband setback [“County’s pursuit of broadband dealt big blow,” Feb. 4] and wa…
Community college students and prospective students are facing substantial challenges right now. The pandemic has lef…
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After several weeks of scrambling to get the COVID vaccine before current supplies give out, I got mine last Saturday…
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