Building Committee, RIP • Flint Hill Fire back-and-forth • Hiking Old Rag: Get a ticket • Volunteers battle brush fires • Chester Brown sentenced. Murder unsolved. • Russian intrigue in Huntly! • Trump win, caravan parades • Washington’s ‘First Lady’ passes • High...
Rappahannock students opt for ‘hands on’ careers It wasn’t that long ago, remembers Dani Pond, when conventional wisdom had it that if you wanted a good career, you better have a degree from a four-year college. “It didn’t matter what degree,” said Pond, supervisor of...
2023-09-30-JohnJackson--8-web.jpg (copy)Jefferson Scott leads a jam down in the barn during last year's John Jackson Piedmont Blues Festival. John Jackson closeupJohn Jackson died in 2002 after a career in which he performed all over the world, including at Carnegie...
What schools and parents can do Time was when teen dread and dark moods were largely viewed as unfortunate features of adolescence, conditions driven by insecurities and hormonal changes that in time would pass. It’s an attitude that can linger, particularly among...
John Jackson Piedmont Blues Festival honors music icon The Piedmont Blues are back! The music will echo once again in the hills of Eldon Farms in Woodville when the John Jackson Piedmont Blues Festival returns on Saturday, Sept. 30. The event is designed to honor the...
300 rides for residents, most for medical appointments 2023-07-FF-Transportation-Kristin-Lam-Peraza--1-web.jpg“We are pleased and surprised with the amount of repeat clients,” said Kristin Lam Peraza, mobility manager for the Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission....
Morgan’s MessageFormer Kettle Run High School students Jordan White and Lily Von Herbulis are “ambassadors” for Morgan’s Message, an area nonprofit. You just never know what a classmate might be going through. It’s a lesson Jordan White and Lily Von Herbulis came to...
County ramping up efforts to boost emergency responders For many years, one of the bigger challenges facing Rappahannock County has been the dwindling supply of fire and rescue volunteers. But a ramped-up effort to train more local residents is showing promising...
This is the second part of a series on the mental health struggles of today’s generation of teenagers, the urgent need for more support in schools and how families can get help. Read Part 1 here. If there’s any question about how teachers, school administrators and...
This is the first part of a series on the mental health struggles of today’s generation of teenagers, the urgent need for more support in schools and how families can get help. Schools scramble to keep up The plan, Erica Jennejahn recalls, was to get ahead of things,...
As they’ve come under increasing fire for the harmful aspects of social media, tech companies have made more protective tools available to parents and caregivers. These parental controls allow them to monitor and filter what children can see online, and to set limits...
sperryville fire trainingTraining at the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department in March 2023. • Among the proposals: More paid personnel, county support • Supervisors must approve committee's recommendations Rappahannock County’s Public Safety Committee unanimously...