by Ireland Hayes | Apr 22, 2025 | Local Government, Town
The Washington Town Council scheduled public hearings next month on three issues: water and sewer rates, a lot line adjustment at The Inn at Little Washington and the town budget. It also discussed upcoming construction and improvement projects in the town at Monday’s...
by Tim Carrington | Apr 20, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
Trinity Church carries on 40-year-old tradition The Trinity Episcopal Church Sunrise Easter Service on Red Oak Mountain — 6 o’clock April 20 — is all about overlapping: The highest feast in the Christian calendar overlaps with the celebrated burst of spring, which...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 18, 2025 | County, Local Government
Gears up for Comprehensive Plan review The Rappahannock County Planning Commission hosted its first of many upcoming community outreach meetings in Amissville on Monday, giving residents a chance to share their ideas of how to update the county’s Comprehensive Plan, a...
by Gracie Hart Brooks | Apr 14, 2025 | Agriculture
The abrupt elimination of two national food procurement programs by the Trump administration’s DOGE unit is hitting close to home as local farmers and the food-needy communities the programs serve cope with the uncertainties. In February, the Local Food Purchase...
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...
