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An emergency services funding split between Warren County and Rappahannock County for the Chester Gap Volunteer Fire Department, to cover personnel loss replacement and coverage issues related to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, was a topic of discussion at the most recent Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Along with many other gatherings this year, the annual Pamper Me Pink breast cancer awareness event could not be held in-person. So founder Sharon Welch Clark decided the show must go on virtually.
Although visiting medical facilities amid the ongoing pandemic can be intimidating, area health officials stress that it is as important as ever for women to get their annual mammography.
The Washington Town Council voted Monday (Oct. 12) at its regular monthly meeting to appoint Constance Bruce, who moved to the north end of Main Street a year ago with her husband, to fill a vacancy on the town planning commission.
In an email to Rappahannock County High School teachers, Principal Jimmy Swindler called for an all-hands-on-deck effort to “as legitimately as we can reduce the number of failing grades.”
In a survey sent out to both parents and teachers, respondents were asked to weigh in on the decision. The majority of both parents and teachers favored the return to in-person lessons. Dr. Grimsley shared comments from teachers as well as parents.
At their regular meeting on Tuesday night, the Rappahannock County School Board unanimously decided to move forward with a plan to resume in-person classes, which for some lower grades would begin on Jan. 5.
RICHMOND — Del. Elizabeth Guzmán, D-Woodbridge, said she is no stranger to the struggles of low-paying jobs. Guzmán said she immigrated to the United States from Peru as a single mother and worked multiple minimum wage jobs just to be able to pay rent and care for her daughter.
Just 59 percent of Rappahannock residents have completed forms
Nearly fifty people attended Monday night’s Board of Supervisors meeting at the Rappahannock County Elementary School to listen to the latest — and possibly last — public hearing on the provisional comprehensive plan.
This year, the annual Christmas parade plans to adapt to COVID realities
VCU emergency room sees 123% increase in non-fatal overdoses
It’s been exactly six months since the first resident of Rappahannock County, an unidentified man in his 40s experiencing mild symptoms, tested positive for COVID-19.
Wonderful Wednesday Day Camp kicked off on Wednesday, Sep. 23 with more than 100 Rappahannock County Public School students attending as either campers or camp counselors.
The process is not preferential but strictly qualifications-based
During his visit last Thursday, US Assistant Secretary of Education Frank Brogan applauded Rappahannock County Public Schools for being “probably the northernmost schools in the state of Virginia that are reopened in a traditional model.”
RICHMOND — Virginia voting is off to an active start, with tens of thousands of people hitting the polls during the 45-day early voting period.
The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors met for a special session at the high school on Friday, Sept. 18 to allocate its second round of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding.
RICHMOND — There are no dodgeball games, cookouts or other rushing events at Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus in Richmond, but fraternities and sororities are still recruiting new brothers and sisters.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a spike in methamphetamine, alcohol, cocaine and opioid-related overdose deaths in Maryland, according to a state health department report released Tuesday.
Virginia reported its 3,000th death related to COVID-19 on Sunday as the state continues to work through a backlog of death certificates filed over the past few weeks.
RICHMOND — An effort to require Virginia school districts provide in-person classes to students with poor internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic is most likely dead.
The soaking rain let up just in time for the start of this afternoon’s (Saturday’s) Old Dominion Hounds Point-to-Point at Ben Venue, one of the biggest events held every year in Rappahannock County, this meet rescheduled from its traditional April date due to COVID-19. Just two Virginia poin…
RAAC has refused to let COVID-19 prevent art lovers from exploring and experiencing Rappahannock artists. So, we have adapted to these challenging times and created three ways to enjoy, celebrate and support our Art Tour artists virtually.
RICHMOND — Though the federal government is asking states to prepare for the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine within months, some Virginians differ on whether the vaccine should be mandatory when it becomes available.
Questions about who gets to live in Rappahannock are perennial
The first day of school seemed orderly and quiet in Rappahannock County, but with fewer students and more masks.
As the manager of the sporting goods department at Gary’s ACE in Culpeper, Pennepacker is responsible for keeping ammunition stocked. But since the start of the pandemic in March, it has been nearly impossible to keep up with demand.
Rappahannock’s superintendent on how the public schools are reacting to their first COVID-19 case
A significant number of Rappahannock County’s 49 cases of COVID-19 can be traced to a church in Castleton and a week-long revival held there in late June.
Watch today's postcard by Kathy Stewart, an EMT for the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad.
It didn’t take long for Rappahannock County Public School officials to confirm the first case of COVID-19 at the high school.
RICHMOND — Virginia college students returning to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic have been equipped with masks, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. Now, many also have coronavirus testing data available at their fingertips.
With last month’s expiration of $600 in enhanced federal unemployment benefits coupled with bleak prospects for a new stimulus package, Rappahannock’s web of social service agencies and nonprofits is bracing for a surge in requests for assistance.
Any day things could change. That’s the reality. No matter how much planning and preparation has gone into making classroom learning possible, one outbreak could shut everything down again.
Faculty and students reflect on their COVID-19 journey and the challenges they face going back to school.
At two private schools in Rappahannock County, faculty and staff are preparing themselves to teach classes five days a week starting Wednesday, Aug. 26.
With school about to reopen, many parents are in need of child care for the days when their children are remote learning and then, if they’re able to find it, needing to scrape together the money to pay for an expense they hadn’t planned for.
Candidate Bob Good concedes risks of COVID-19 — sans mask; ‘I believe that we need to take reasonable precautions’
It may be impossible to predict the future while mired in a raging pandemic, but Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) has prepared protocols for virtually every COVID-19-related scenario it can imagine in advance of a looming August 24 reopening.
COVID-19 has proven to be a huge challenge because we cannot get together with our young mentee and we have had to scale back in other areas of service as well.
Rappahannock County residents, which at last count had a somewhat dismal 55 percent response rate — the worst in this region of Virginia.
Watch today's postcard by Child Care & Learning Center teacher Elvira Yanez
‘It can reach the point where it all boils over’
In the shade under a picnic shelter at the Rappahannock County park, nine-year-old Lucas Morey holds up his still-wet painting of a farmer and a pig in a green field. “The pig’s got mud running down his face,” he says, gesturing to a squiggly brown line. Lucas says art has been his favorite part of summer camp so far.
“There’s still too much uncertainty,” said Kenner Love, the county’s agricultural extension agent who heads the team of volunteers behind the event.
Rappahannock County has been notified by the state government that it will receive an additional $643,000 in the second and final allocation of federal Coronavirus Relief Funds (CARES Act), matching the previous amount earmarked for the county.
VHSL makes fall and winter sports decisions; RCPS will follow guidance
“We are so fortunate that during these difficult times amidst polarization and divisiveness plaguing the state and nation as a whole that we live in a community that truly does come together to do what is right, especially for our most vulnerable populations,”
Last month, I wrote about Rappahannock County’s predominantly African American churches’ reopening plans to in-person worship services.
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