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Rainy night, full house for RAAC’s first indoor summer concert

Rainy night, full house for RAAC’s first indoor summer concert

by Ireland Hayes | May 26, 2026 | Art, People, Sidebar, Top Story

Despite steady rain, the Sperryville Summer Concert Series opened last Thursday night with music and a packed indoor crowd — marking the first time the popular series has moved inside instead of postponing for weather. Sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for...
Monira Rifaat: The outsider who became a trailblazer in local farming 

Monira Rifaat: The outsider who became a trailblazer in local farming 

by Bob Hurley | May 25, 2026 | Agriculture, People, Sidebar, Top Story

She knew nothing about cattle farming. Then she changed it. Monira Rifaat never expected to become a cattle farmer. Trained as a pathologist under the British medical system in Egypt where she was born in 1938, she arrived in the United States in the 1960s, completed...
Stray bullet narrowly misses neighbor during target practice

Stray bullet narrowly misses neighbor during target practice

by Ireland Hayes | May 23, 2026 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar

Nine people appeared in Rappahannock County District Court Tuesday after their March target practice led to a stray bullet narrowly missing a neighbor’s head.  On the afternoon of March 21, a call came into the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) dispatch line...
Civil War reenactors bring First Manassas to life at Brandy Station

Civil War reenactors bring First Manassas to life at Brandy Station

by Luke Christopher | May 22, 2026 | People, Sidebar, Top Story

Thousands of Civil War reenactors and spectators gathered at Brandy Station Battlefield last weekend for the 165th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of First Manassas, billed by organizers as the country’s largest Civil War reenactment this year.  The two-day...
Pizza delivery — and more — arrives in Rappahannock

Pizza delivery — and more — arrives in Rappahannock

by Ireland Hayes | May 20, 2026 | Business, People, Sidebar, Top Story

Ordering delivery from a pizza shop is pretty standard practice — unless you live in Rappahannock County, where the convenience has never existed. Now it does. Xpress Mart & Pizza, a convenience store and restaurant on Route 211 near Leeds Manor Road in Warrenton,...
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