All primary highways in Rappahannock County have been pretreated — some twice in two days — in anticipation of what could be the most snow we’ve seen in these mountains and foothills in two years. The brine solution motorists already see sprayed on the roads,...
Local archaeological sites unearth copper and shell beads, doorway and support post patterns, stone burial mound clusters Powhatan referred to the Manahoac tribe as Anchanachuck — “those who hunt in the mountains.” The small band of Native Americans — barely a...
‘While I am excited for a new opportunity to be closer to home and my family, there is a big part of me saddened to leave the community I have called home for the last 10 years’ Jennifer “Jen” Parker, for more than three years the director of Social Services in...
‘The old structure is on the brink of an exciting new chapter in its almost 250-year history’ The iconic 18th century grist mill on the edge of Little Washington, which ground wheat and corn for a thriving frontier settlement that would eventually become Rappahannock...
‘Whatever you do, don’t rub or touch your eyes if you have handled a caterpillar’ As Rappahannock County gardeners know all too well this time of year, small eating machines known as caterpillars are busy devouring everything from tomatoes and corn to peas and sweet...