A small-town success story
If you go out to the coffee shop in Monterey, Va., with The Recorder publisherAnne Adams, don’t expect to eat quickly.
No reporters on staff
Lifelong newspaperman Carlos Santos: “It’s always a struggle every week to cover what should be covered.”
An African-American paper endures in Southwest
Claudia A. Whitworth was 18 in 1945 when she began working with her father on the Roanoke Tribune, the African-American weekly he founded shortly before World War II.
Mixing small town politics and journalism
Lifelong newspaperman Carlos Santos: “It’s always a struggle every week to cover what should be covered.”
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Foothills Forum is an independent, community-supported nonprofit tackling the need for in-depth research and reporting on Rappahannock County issues.
The group has an agreement with Rappahannock Media, owner of the Rappahannock News, to present this series and other award-winning reporting projects. More at foothillsforum.org.
