by Randy Rieland | Mar 9, 2024 | Business, Local Services, Politics
‘The companies should lead the way’ Maybe, just maybe, the Rappahannock community is moving forward in addressing one of its more persistent and daunting challenges. For more than a decade now, the aging of the county’s population has taken a toll on Rappahanock’s...
by Ireland Hayes | Feb 23, 2024 | Business, Education, Politics
The ‘super’ in school superintendent takes on new meaning Grimsley-15c-web.jpgGrimsley took on the job of driving a school bus to help fill a need for drivers in the county, but really enjoys driving and has continued to substitute drive after all of the district’s...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Feb 16, 2024 | Art, Education, People, Politics
Background: Joined the staff of Rappahannock County Library in 2011 as a youth services librarian and was named library director in 2020, former library assistant at Culpeper County Library; Virginia Tech University, BA, English; Longwood University, MA, English;...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 23, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
For 30 years, he was Rappahannock’s game warden Jim Bankston, Rappahannock’s game warden and protector of people and wild resources for 30 years, was a conservation law enforcement officer. His first allegiance was to conservation, and his priority was education,...
by Bob Hurley | Nov 11, 2023 | Business, doers, Health, Local Services, People
Background: Retired director of survey research with the National Institutes of Health and subsequently, a psychiatric social worker focused on gerontology and bereavement. Active in the newly-created National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Wendt...