Amissville’s Jeremiah Foscato heads to nationals in Ohio

Ben Venue Farm hosts 12th Annual Rapp fireworks festival

Mayor: ‘For once everybody is happy’

Rappahannock’s 5th beer (and food and costume) festival

What’s not to like about Fourth of July week?

It’s Yeaster!

‘Daily Bread’ baked locally

It’s beginning to look a lot like . . .

Due to muddy fields, 1000 Faces Mask Theatre is moving its Saturday show (Oct. 1) to the yard of Howard and Julie Coon (67 Coon Holler Lane, Castleton 22716). Google map link. “The Half Hour News Hour from Planet Earth” starts at 6 p.m. (the same time it was to go on at Stone Hill), with gat…

Ms. Smith brings her heretofore secret sister act to town this Saturday

The Trinity House Tour, Oct. 15-16

Rapp’s own Wonder Woman

Above: Though the day’s weather wasn’t great — rain, some of it of steady enough to make poncho wearers feel superior — the weather took a turn for the better Monday night after the skies were dark enough for spectacular fireworks at the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department’s annual 4th of …

Amissville’s carnival and parade attract both funseekers and spiffed-up fire and rescue apparatus — and the volunteers who run them — from all over. Top: Jack Jones, as one of the newest members of Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue (sponsors of the annual event), got to take the much-cove…

Racers in the annual Piedmont Area Soap Box Derby are ready to roll.

Get ready for your Fourth

Good guys vs. bad guys

DARE Day, the annual chance for youngsters and others at Rappahannock Elementary to see firsthand what emergency responders do, went off without a hitch last Friday — with visits and demonstrations by Sperryville Volunteer Fire Co.’s 75-foot tower ladder (above) and Virginia Airborne Search …

‘Arguing With God’ postponed due to rainDue to rain, the premiere of “Arguing with God” is now rescheduled to Sunday, June 5. The grounds open at 5 pm and the show begins at 5:30 pm. Tickets already purchased can be used or, if requested, refunded. In the unlikely event of more bad weather, …

“Food so good, you’ll want to grab a plate and find a corner where you can concentrate on the tastes and savor!”

Seated along the window (from left), Robert “Smiggy” Smith, Andy Platt and Lyt Wood entertain the  crowd by reading from “Alice in Wonderland” Saturday afternoon at Central Coffee Roasters in Sperryville, where owner Maggie Rogers (foreground, looking up) also exhibited a roomful of her “Ali…

See you in 2016

Another letter of thanks, one of a series. Christmas parades are in the details and so many people made this day special: Cornucopia Farms for the dove release in front of the fountain; David Albee for a host of fantastic antique cars with wonderful drivers; Mimi Forbes and the Rappahannock …

The pictures in this week’s paper say it all: Rappahannock County kicked off the holiday season in grand style, outdoing even last year’s spectacular parade. So many thank-yous to those who did the hard work, beginning with Thom Pellikaan, parade master — who produced the eclectic and totall…

Sunday’s Christmas in Little Washington — Rappahannock County’s celebration of the holiday with a parade, music, artisans and food — was by most accounts the best yet. What’s here are more than 200 photos taken by Joanie Ballard, Ray Boc, Jan Clatterbuck, Kathy Krometis, Wynn Ludwig, Jackie …

‘Selma’ fundraiser benefits Scrabble foundation

The Rappahannock County Public Schools Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) would like to thank the following local team sponsors for their generous support of our upcoming Alumni Basketball Tournament: A&E Excavating, B&B Signal, Cooter’s Place in Sperryville, Miller & Smith Home B…

A RappCats benefit Worth attending

Weigh in

Above, a lone Viking contemplates his empire, or at least the start of a Blue Ridge sunset at Saturday’s Halloween “Spectacle,” from atop John Henry’s stone amphitheater at Henry’s Stone Hill home — where hundreds, in costume, enjoyed a 1000 Faces Mask Theatre production, bagpipes, a torch-l…