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Seven years ago a dream came true for Kevin “KC” Bosch, a handyman who has lived in Rappahannock County for 28 years. Poetry flowed out of him — enough to fill a book. But it wasn’t until one of Bosch’s clients told him about grant money available through the nonprofit Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community (RAAC) that he thought publishing a book of his poems might be possible.

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The Rappahannock County Elementary School Student Council Association (SCA) held a Valentine's Day Dance on Friday, Feb. 3 for sixth and seventh-grade students. Attendees were asked to bring an optional canned good item to donate to the local food pantry, a long-standing tradition for the St…

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Sandra Maskas — Manager, Rappahannock Visitors Center; retired psychiatric social worker at Fauquier Hospital; former board member of Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board, Rappahannock County Recreational Facilities Authority, Fauquier Free Clinic, and Fauquier Community Action; moved to Rappahannock from Pittsburgh in 1979. Lives in Amissville.