by Foothills Forum Staff Report | May 12, 2024 | Business, Crime and Courts, Health, Politics
Cruising along serene Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park (SNP), it’s easy to forget how quickly the park juts into backcountry wilderness, where innumerable rocky trails lead to breathtaking vistas, cliffs and waterfalls but also expose Sunday tourists and even...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | May 7, 2024 | Education, Politics
VPA news sweepstakes 2023Virginia Press Association President Jim Maxwell and Dennis Brack, VPA vice president and publisher of the Rappahannock News, present the News Sweepstakes award to Rapp News Editor Julia Shanahan during Saturday evening’s award ceremony...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 21, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Health, Politics
One day he feels fine . . . next comes a diagnosis of cancer, five kinds “I’m a very blessed man. My whole life, I’ve had everything I wanted or needed,” said Ted Pellegatta, looking back on 84 years from the vantage of his recliner in the tiny cottage next door to...
by Tim Carrington | Apr 6, 2024 | Features, People, Sidebar
With contributed reports from Ireland Hayes, Hunter Savery and Allison Brophy Champion Housing insecurity triggers stress, risk, despair People who are financially secure and people who are financially strained both consider housing central to their well-being. But...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 3, 2024 | Business, Politics
Protecting it ‘depends on goodwill of people in the town’ Rappahannock’s dark sky is rare, so rare that it’s one of the darkest spots along the East Coast and advocates want to keep it that way. So, too, its county park has received top international recognition for...
