BOS Chair Smith: ‘I think I'll work on this resolution for a bit, and take it forward on my own once the planning bit is flushed out’

An unidentified 35-year-old Boston man escaped serious injury in a tragic accident that shut down Route 28 in Fauquier County for several hours on Wednesday afternoon. 

Don’t buy into ‘many unfounded myths, worthless folk remedies, and just plain bad advice out there about treating snake bites’

“It seeks to improve pedestrian safety in Sperryville as well as calm traffic in the village,” explains Sperryville business owner and alliance member Kerry Sutten. “Supervisor Smith has suggested the board consider the resolution at its July 6th board meeting.”

Shortly before 6 p.m. on this holiday evening a Tennessee motorist traveling east on Route 211 between Sperryville and Washington lost control of his four-door sedan and crashed head-on into one of several U.S. flag adorned antique Farmall tractors displayed every Fourth of July by Rappahann…

Motorcyclist killed in two-vehicle crash near Sperryville Sunday afternoon

Saturday’s spectacular weather was bound to bring out the motorcyclists. And that it did by the hundreds — sport bikes and roadsters to cruisers and choppers.

According to Rappahannock County Sheriff Connie Compton, “charges are pending” against a Rappahannock County man with a long criminal record surrounding a suspicious fire at his house last Friday afternoon in the 400 block of Aaron Mountain Road in Castleton.

Virginia State Police Trooper B. Coleman is investigating a single-vehicle fatal crash in Culpeper County. The crash occurred Dec. 2 at 7:55 a.m. on Route 1066 at Route 1068.

Speed not a factor in most recent accidents

Exactly one hundred years ago today — Sept. 5, 1919 — Rappahannock County was rattled by a rather unique earthquake that struck close to home. 

A two-vehicle crash last Thursday afternoon on Route 340 in Page County, directly below Hogback Overlook in Shenandoah National Park, claimed the lives of three New Jersey visitors and injured two others, one seriously.

An unidentified motorcyclist was transported to the hospital by the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad after his Kawasaki ZRX with Virginia tags and a Toyota SUV from Maryland collided at approximately 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the intersection of highways 211 and 522 in Sperryville. A Rapp…

In the early afternoon of Tuesday, a clear summer day, a trucker driving a semi on narrow, winding Ben Venue Road as a cut-through between Route 211 and 522 met a vehicle on one of the road’s constricted turns, crushing the driver’s side of the car. 

The driver of this large delivery truck belonging to Merchants Grocery Company told an emergency responder from VDOT that he liked to hug the white shoulder line while driving. Only this afternoon while heading east on Route 211 just before Burgers N Things in Sperryville he strayed a little…

Photos by John McCaslin

The feel like temperature was 5 degrees above zero when this two-story house fronting Route 522 in Scrabble caught fire at approximately 9:30 p.m. Monday. As he stood in the snowpack watching volunteer firefighters from across Rappahannock County battle the blaze, resident Enner Jimenez told…

‘I was born and raised here and I have never seen it flood like that before’

Flooding closes roads, causes cancellations in county

A woman with deep roots in Rappahannock County was swept to her death last Wednesday evening after attempting to cross a swift moving portion of river water near Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria.

As if they didn’t have enough to deal with during the height of the wind storm on Friday, Rappahannock County volunteer fire & rescue crews raced from one windswept wildfire to the other. The largest of the wildfires burned an estimated 100 or so acres on Eldon Farms, scorching several h…

It was an extremely busy holiday period for the local law enforcement and other emergency responders, including rushing to a deadly hunting accident near Slate Mills, discovering a woman in a frozen field behind Willis Chapel, and investigating a suspected suicide in Huntly.

Suicidal person was armed, according to sheriff

Louise Eastham, an active member of the Rappahannock County community and owner of the historic Ben Venue farm, has died from injuries she sustained in a motor vehicle accident on Saturday evening, Nov. 25.

‘It happened so fast and when adrenaline kicked in there was no stopping us’

A Rappahannock County Public Schools bus and another vehicle collided this morning at the intersection of Route 211 and Old Hollow Road in Sperryville, causing the bus to flip on its side and injure several students.

Flames broke out while historic antebellum building was staffed

Flames broke out while historic antebellum building was staffed

• More than 300 CCA employees could be retained in the process

A multi-alarm fire that began late Saturday night and continued burning into Sunday afternoon has destroyed the Communications Corporation of America (CCA) printing plant in Boston.

A longtime Washington-area farmer was seriously injured last Wednesday evening, June 14, when the Massey Ferguson farm tractor he was driving westbound on Route 211 near Old Massies Corner Road was rear-ended by a 1993 Chevy truck, causing the farmer to be ejected and the pickup to overturn.

Nicole Mittendorff’s death has one positive side

Virginia State Trooper B.R. Johnson investigates a motorcycle accident Sunday afternoon on a notoriously sharp curve of U.S. 211 inside Shenandoah National Park. Members of the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department said the unidentified motorcyclist was transported to the hospital with “main…

A 67-year-old Sperryville man, Danny Ray Baldwin, died in a single-vehicle accident on Fletcher’s Mill Road near Woodville last Wednesday evening, March 8.

A two-vehicle accident involving a motorcycle occurred around 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Highways 211 and 522 in Sperryville. The rider on the Harley-Davidson was medevaced by helicopter, which touched down at the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department. There was at least on…

Speeding one too many times can earn you jail time and a suspended driver’s license, a consequence discovered Tuesday (Dec. 13) by Amissville resident Forrest Richmond, 24, who was found guilty in a Rappahannock County District Court bench trial of reckless driving by speeding.

Neither of the two occupants of the late-model sedan was injured when it crashed through the fence separating the Burgers ‘N Things parking area from the low-running Thornton River in Sperryville on Saturday afternoon, winging a picnic table and dumpster on the way. State police said the uni…

While installing guardrails as part of a paving contract along U.S. 211, a Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) contractor broke sewer lines in two places west of Sperryville.