by Ireland Hayes | Sep 9, 2025 | Environment, Infrastructure, People, Sidebar, Top Story
Company contends it’s routine; others fear energy demands from data centers When Kerry Sutten steps outside his Sperryville home, he is greeted by a beautiful view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There are power lines and poles mixed in with the trees, but they’re...
by Ireland Hayes, Julia Shanahan | Aug 15, 2025 | Education, Sidebar
Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) will not renew a contract with a lobbyist to advocate for increased funding in the next legislative session after several unsuccessful runs in the Virginia General Assembly. “It was pretty clear to us that Rappahannock...
by Gracie Hart Brooks | Jul 8, 2025 | Business, Top Story
Takeout food and drinks will look different from this week on. A Virginia state ban on single-use styrofoam containers, technically known as expanded polystyrene (EPS), became law July 1. It prohibits food vendors from using styrofoam plates, cups, bowls, trays, to-go...
by Randy Rieland | May 19, 2025 | Agriculture, Top Story
Wildlife meshes with farm life at evolving Sunnyside conservancy From a distance, it looks like a large puddle, likely a remnant of a recent rain, shadowed by a copse of trees. A branch lies partly submerged. Nothing remarkable. But, as Nick Lapham approaches the...
by Bob Hurley | Apr 14, 2025 | Agriculture
Kestrel’s migration tracked for four years Peaches, a five-year old female kestrel outfitted with a tiny solar-powered backpack transmitter, arrived in Warrenton on March 18 after completing her 560 mile spring migration journey from a farm in Georgia. This feat was a...
