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These are the school bus routes for the school year that starts Monday, August 24,2020. RCPS Families.
Deep cleaning, disinfecting now completed at Flatwood site
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’
New traffic pattern on Route 211 will improve traffic flow
Despite its colossal impact, COVID-19 hasn’t postponed all progress in Rappahannock County.
The Virginia Department of Transportation will offset the left-turn lanes in both directions on Route 211 (Lee Highway) at Route 229 (Rixeyville Road) in Culpeper County starting next week.
If our community is going to emerge from this situation as a whole, I believe all of us need to come together and support each other to the best of our ability.
When UPS Driver Cliff Spengler put a post on Facebook recently about the volume of packages he was handling daily, dozens of people responded thanking him for his efforts.
Amanda Butler, RCPS School Nutrition Director, and cafeteria staff immediately went to work to ensure that none of the county youth would be hungry during the closure.
‘No one in our community is alone’
“Sixty-four percent — 16 of 25 cases… of the speed tickets — have been given to non-local drivers, drivers who are residents of the zip codes of at least 30 miles away from this location..."
The Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission has adopted the RRRC Active Transportation Plan, marking the first time that such a measure has been endorsed.
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…
Rappahannock residents who for years have displayed a valid Virginia driver’s license for identification purposes when passing through airport security to board a domestic flight will no longer be able to do so beginning next year.
Update: The owner of the trailer has been located and says he has permission to park the trailers at the intersection.
Late Monday afternoon, County Administrator Garrey Curry received official word that the Commissioner of Highways, Stephen C. Brich, had approved the Board of Supervisors’ request that Ben Venue Road be restricted to through trucks.
Word just in: The pipe replacement project on Route 647 (Crest Hill Road) in Rappahannock County will continue this next week of March 4, meaning the road will be closed again.
Due to anticipated winter weather, the pipe project on Route 647 (Crest Hill Road) in Rappahannock County has now been postponed until the week of Feb. 25, VDOT has advised the Rappahannock News.
The bridge at the Whiteoak Canyon parking area, which was severely damaged during recent heavy rains and flooding, remains closed.
Motorists now know for certain what road leads to Flint Hill.
Four local airports will receive federal funding boosts to improve airport infrastructure through the joint Department of Transportation-Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program.
The Virginia Department of Transportation will close the Route 626 (Whorton Hollow Road) bridge over the Thornton River in Rappahannock County for rehabilitation.
600 residents of outside counties employed in Rapp County
Organization takes seniors in Rappahannock and neighboring counties to appointments
Three-dozen Rappahannock community leaders and residents attended last Sunday’s Foothills Forum community discussion surrounding rural transportation challenges. The forum, held at Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church in Sperryville, followed reporter Randy Rieland’s two-part special report — “G…
‘In 2018 our big goal is to help people in Chester Gap or Sperryville . . . ’
Any motorist in Rappahannock County knows our highways and byways are being paved and repaved in earnest as we speak. While steering in single file past all the road construction you might have noticed Tom Golliday of Augusta, W.V., seen here on his asphalt sweeper near Woodville. Golliday a…
When it comes to transportation services for the elderly and needy in rural areas, the entire country will be looking to emulate the successful model operating right here in Rappahannock County.
Here are some road and lane closures, detours and related work zones to keep an eye out for while traversing Rappahannock County in the coming days, if not longer depending on the project:
Route 211 is the main highway through Rappahannock County. Its formal name is US 211, that is, United States Highway 211. It deserves some recognition.
The Virginia Department of Transportation will close the Route 655 (Short Road) bridge over Beaverdam Creek in Rappahannock County for approximately four weeks for rehabilitation.
New call center helps Rapp seniors find transportation
Dozens of new homes could be built near the corner of 211 and 229
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.
Once again VDOT shows its infinite wisdom by closing the bridge on Fodderstack Road during the school year and the approaching tourist season with the fall colors. Inconvenience to locals is expected, but makes no sense to force the school bus to turn around and go all the way back around Fl…
Board pressed to act on noise, speeding, zoning issues
The gloves are off. What’s more important to the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, noise or children’s lives?
The Rock Mills Road bridge over the Covington River, originally meant to reopen July 28 after its deck was replaced, will now be closed into the first week of September, four weeks after schools go back into session.
The following is the second installment of excerpts from a wide-ranging interview with John W. McCarthy, who retired June 30 after 30 years as Rappahannock County’s chief administrator, and zoning administrator. McCarthy sat down July 1 with Rappahannock News editor Roger Piantadosi, at a pi…
After a recent event at Cooter’s in Sperryville drew hundreds of people and scores of vehicles, Rappahannock County Administrator Debbie Keyser said this week she received a complaint of alleged zoning violations and is “looking into it.”
It’s a matter of pride that Rappahannock County is so rural that it doesn’t have a single stoplight. Well, that is no longer true, at least for a few months. In May, VDOT installed a three-way traffic signal at U.S. 522 and Oaklands Lane just north of Flint Hill while crews rehabilitate the …
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