A Foothills Forum/Rappahannock News occasional series Give them a chance and Rappahannock County citizens will speak freely about what divides us – and unites us – living in this place we call home. Beginning in January, a team of Rappahannock News reporters and...
When students returned to Rappahannock’s two public schools last week, all indications were that finally things were back to normal. No more masking. No more social distancing. Kids could go to classes, eat lunch together, hang out in the hallways like they did in the...
Hal Hunter is at it again. He has this thing about trying to make people’s lives a little better. Back in 2009, he was the driving force behind the launch of the Rappahannock Food Pantry and its Backpack Program that sends food home with elementary school kids on...
The immense toll an intense childhood disease took on two Rappahannock families It’s like being struck by lightning. That’s how Lynnie Genho describes how she and her husband John felt last June when they were told their then six-year-old daughter, Anne, had cancer,...
Chester Gap chief: “It’s bad. People don’t realize how bad. We’re fighting it tooth and nail right now.” In December, a crew from the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad responded to a call. They picked up a patient and headed for Fauquier Hospital. There, they waited...
Persistent pandemic frustrates public schools It’s not surprising that Superintendent Shannon Grimsley and her staff at Rappahannock County Public Schools felt pretty good about the start of classes last August. Snapshot 2021: Intro, Development, Broadband, News...
Prices are up, and more broadband access might make the county an even more attractive place to work from home. How will that impact it as a place to live? For all the adversity it has brought to local families, schools and businesses, the COVID-19 pandemic has been...
Rappahannock and its neighbors seek to balance solar power, farming and open space In the past four months: - Fauquier County’s Planning Commission has rejected two proposals to build utility solar fields on farmland in the county. - Culpeper County’s Board of...
Editor's note: This story was published in print prior to new mandate from the state requiring face coverings indoors in K-12 schools. A year ago, Shannon Grimsley was facing the unfathomable. Another school year was about to begin, but one under the perilous cloud of...
With the first day of the new school year just hours away, the Rappahannock County School Board on Tuesday night voted to slightly adjust its masking policy, allowing the superintendent to mandate masks in the event of an outbreak — with the ability to remove the...
Trained clinicians have joined law enforcement officers in responding to mental health calls in the region The call was about a man threatening suicide. In response, a Fauquier County sheriff’s deputy drove to the scene, hoping he could talk him out of it. He never...
Trips to medical appointments from $5 to $20 Not long ago, Lola Walker received a call from a woman who needed a ride to Charlottesville for a medical test. The caller wanted to avoid asking her daughter or granddaughter to take her because they would have had to take...