by Ireland Hayes | Dec 15, 2025 | Education, Sidebar
The Rappahannock County School Board began its last meeting of the year Tuesday recognizing longtime educator Larry Grove, who is retiring as vice chair and Stonewall-Hawthorne representative. Chair Wes Mills read a resolution calling out Grove’s “nearly 13 years of...
by Ireland Hayes | Dec 13, 2025 | Local Government, Sidebar, Town
In a 3-2 vote, the Washington Town Council appointed Vice Mayor Fred Catlin to the vacant Architectural Review Board (ARB) seat at its Monday meeting. Catlin announced his resignation from the council following the vote. The council will now need to fill its vacant...
by Bob Hurley | Dec 9, 2025 | County, Local Government, Sidebar, Top Story
After representing the Stonewall-Hawthorne District for one four-year term, Woodville resident Van Carney will step down from the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors (BOS) at the end of the year. Carney, 45, now a third-year law student at George Mason University’s...
by Ireland Hayes | Dec 1, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
‘We are really, seriously having a problem’ he tells judge Chester Brown had his day — and say — in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Thursday, airing frustrations about his lawyer and how the murder case against him is being handled. Brown, 65, a former Washington...
by Ireland Hayes | Nov 28, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
A Rappahannock County Circuit Court judge ordered a Castleton man Thursday to pay a total of $10,000 to three victims after he was found guilty of stealing a tractor, a trailer of camping equipment and two antique replica cannons, one of which the prosecution said is...
