Tuesday’s surprise snowstorm caused countless headaches for motorists from Scrabble to Chester Gap, many finding themselves stuck in ditches due to slippery snow-packed roads. 

Rapp at Home executive director Mary Katherine Ishee congratulates outgoing president Sharon Pierce for her years of service during the group’s annual meeting. 

Sheriff Connie Compton takes the opportunity to grab a group photo of her devoted deputies looking sharp in their uniforms. 

In that moment, I knew Bill's spirit would forever be with me and that the sadness I share with our family and friends would someday be replaced with joyful gratitude...

Every year, Rappahannock farmer Jonas Jenkins delights travelers of Fodderstack Road by bringing them Christmas greetings with accompanying red and green trimmings.

Hot off the press, Lillian Freeman Aylor’s eagerly awaited memoir, “I’ll Get It Done: A Life Journey in Rappahannock,” sold out quickly at the artisan fair at the Christmas Parade in Little Washington on Sunday.

Commit to Be Fit held its annual Turkey Trot Family Fun Run on Thanksgiving morning at the RCHS Track.

The Sperryville River Walk officially opened last week with a celebratory ribbon cutting. 

Businesses of Rappahannock was busy this past Sunday installing five (temporary) signs/banners across the county in support of Shop Small, Shop Local Saturday. 

“This bear was perhaps 30 feet above the ground, snacking on wild grapes. Note [the] vines above his head,” writes Rappahannock resident Robert Burney of this beautiful bruin. 

Settle’s Cars & Trucks sponsored a community fish fry in Flint Hill earlier this month to raise funds to support the building of a new food pantry. The menu included catfish, shrimp, fries and hand dipped ice cream. 

“This is so sad,” writes the Rappahannock County resident. “Over the weekend someone shot this beautiful creature on Battle Run Road and just left him. It was obviously shot from the road. 

Hats off to Mike Wenger, Bean Hollow resident and U.S. Air Force veteran, for organizing yet another successful Veterans Day “Beer Call” at Headmaster’s Pub in Sperryville. 

Narmada Winery owner Sudha Patil, holding the large scissors in the center, and her proud family were joined by Rappahannock County Administrator Garrey Curry (far right) and other dignitaries and guests for the winery’s 10th anniversary ribbon cutting ceremony this past weekend in Amissville. 

Autumn is turning the corner toward winter in Rappahannock County.

Most who dared venture out for some Halloween trick-or-treating last Thursday carried umbrellas to shield the little witches and werewolves from the persistent raindrops that fell. 

On Friday, 32 Mille Miglia drivers and their passengers wound their way through Rappahannock County, stopping briefly in Washington to have their rally passports stamped by local race “officials” — Mayor Fred Catlin (blue jacket, far right), Administrator Garrey Curry (red jacket), and Busin…

The Rappahannock version of American Gothic, its characters played here by Will and Jennifer Ruger, made an appearance at the 10th annual Halloween “Spectacle” at John Henry’s Stone Hill Theater in Flint Hill on Saturday evening. 

Beer, cider, spirits, wine, fizzy concoctions, BBQ, oysters, desserts, veggies, live music, and a multitude of friends and families. 

Annual Halloween displays by the Fuller Family of Woodville never disappoint, proof being the Headless Horseman who galloped into the picture this year. 

“This is what a 13 pound sweet potato looks like,” boasts Woodville farmer Jim Manwaring, his wife Carolyn seen here clutching the monster root veggie. 

Sunny and warm skies — and a whole lot of fun — guaranteed a successful Flint Hill Volunteer Fire Department Fall Festival this past Saturday on Fodderstack Road. 

It was a bittersweet Wednesday at the Country Cafe in Washington, as the popular restaurant celebrated 30 years at the corner of Main Street and Warren Avenue.

“Could this be another glacier passing through Rappahannock? Or the newly formed Lake Rappahannock? 

During a visit last Wednesday with a small group of Rappahannock County High School juniors and seniors, Rep. Denver Riggleman spoke about his life as a U.S. congressman. Afterwards, he was invited into the school’s Metal Shop Class to see its seven-foot-tall “Bigfoot” sculpture. At which po…

Outnumbered by appreciative men, 18th district Democratic delegate candidate Laura Galante broke bread last Friday with the Rappahannock Lunch Bunch at The Blue Door in Flint Hill.

Rapp at Home members gathered at Off The Grid in Sperryville to celebrate the organization’s four-year anniversary and to learn about the services they can provide and receive. Since Sept. 2015 the village has grown from 40 members to 160. 

Three dolls made a wish to become “real” in the A Thousand Faces production of “Another Crack in the Cosmic Egg” last Saturday at the Castleton Festival Tent. 

The Second Friday series at the Rappahannock County Library kicked off its 2019-2020 season with an appearance by Rappahannock’s own Col. John Bourgeois, for many years director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. 

Each year on September 11, in memory of the 9/11 terrorist attack on our nation 18 years ago, the Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church honors first responders from Rappahannock County and from surrounding counties with a dinner and a prayer service. 

The Rappahannock County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Courthouse in Washington on a pair of applications by Arlington-based Community Wireless Structures (CWS) to build two 199-foot cell towers along Sperryville Pi…

VDOT has finally made it official — signs posted on Routes 211 and 522 warn that large tractor-trailer trucks are now prohibited from using narrow Ben Venue Road unless they have a local purpose. Residents reached out to VDOT in 2018, complaining about the number of large trucks using the wi…

For many years the community of Woodville held an annual picnic atop Red Oak mountain.

Woodville resident Teresa Mallory writes: “I decided to plant some sunflowers not knowing what to expect.

Ninety family and friends on Saturday filed into a birthday party at the Sperryville Fire Hall in celebration of 90-year-old Lee Anna Wharton. Lee Anna’s family, displaced from Shenandoah National Park when she was 5, settled in Sperryville. 

New and returning students to Rappahannock County Elementary School, including second grader Madelyn Chapman happily skipping down the hallway here, were more than excited to try out the new Commit to Be Fit Sensory Path that winds its way through not one but two of the school’s hallways. 

As seen here, “The House that Addie Built” is having its chimneys repointed. Addie Nairn Hunter built the small bungalow-style cottage — “Massanutten Lodge” — in 1911, just before marrying (and then divorcing) Skyland Resort founder George Freeman Pollock. 

Our last celebrity sighting in Flint Hill found Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dining on curried chicken salad at the Griffin Tavern. 

At RAAC Theatre's Third Annual Summer Community Reading this week, Philip Rosemond (left), Stephen Brooks, Mara Seaforest, Russ Savage, Jeanie McNear and Sharon Kilpatrick took roles in the 1955 radio drama “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.”