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...
by Tim Carrington | Apr 13, 2025 | County, Infrastructure, Local Government
Tariff wars hit close to home Costs could threaten taxpaying households The first brick of Rappahannock’s new courthouse has yet to be laid, but it is already casting a long shadow over the county. Proposed designs have been called too big or too barn-like, but the...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 13, 2025 | Politics, Top Story
‘I’m so tired of yelling at the TV when DOGE … is cutting federal employees. Where’s the Democratic congressional and senate leaders?’ At a town hall in Rappahannock County Thursday night, U.S. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., warned constituents...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 10, 2025 | County, Local Government
Board votes for new school buses The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to allow staff to seek approval from the state to institute a small increase in court fees that could be leveraged by the county to help fund the construction of a new...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 4, 2025 | Crime and Courts
Flint Hill resident and local contractor Edward “Eddie” Fletcher’s case on embezzlement charges came up in Rappahannock County General District Court Tuesday, the second felony charge related to a Woodville construction and remodeling job. Fletcher’s case was...
