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PEC president warns of impact of data centers in Rappahannock

PEC president warns of impact of data centers in Rappahannock

by Tim Carrington | Aug 7, 2025 | Environment, Top Story

Rappahannock will be significantly affected by the proliferation of data centers in Northern Virginia, even if the county manages to fend off future construction proposals within the county, according to Christopher G. Miller, longtime president of the Piedmont...
Ripples from Washington: How big changes to our east are impacting Rappahannock County

Ripples from Washington: How big changes to our east are impacting Rappahannock County

by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Aug 4, 2025 | Features, Politics, Sidebar, Top Story

Here’s what we know…and don’t yet know. We read about “the cuts,” then waited for what they’d mean. With the signing into law of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this month, and now six months into President Trump’s administration, a picture slowly...
Rappahannock residents at risk from Medicaid cuts

Rappahannock residents at risk from Medicaid cuts

by Tim Carrington | Aug 4, 2025 | Health, Sidebar

Reduced health care, access to services Rappahannock County and other rural areas are likely to be hit the hardest by cuts in Medicaid, the health insurance program that more than one in five Americans depend on. “The consensus is that between 300,000 and 400,000...
Historic Madison County church hosts Madison-Monroe debate

Historic Madison County church hosts Madison-Monroe debate

by Emily Oaks | Aug 3, 2025 | Features, People, Sidebar, Top Story

A political debate, utterly free of animosity, took place July 20 at Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison County where two men in 18th-century breeches and tricornered hats reenacted an event that occurred on the same spot in January 1789. Friends James Madison and James...
Court updates, Chester Brown, Bill Fletcher cases move forward

Court updates, Chester Brown, Bill Fletcher cases move forward

by Ireland Hayes | Jul 21, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar

From what appeared to be a classroom in the Lunenburg Correctional Center in Victoria, Va., accused murderer Chester Brown, 64, appeared by video call in Rappahannock County District Court Tuesday for a less than three-minute hearing — one his attorney, Ryan Rakness,...
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