by Ireland Hayes | May 14, 2025 | County, Local Government
The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission held a joint public hearing Monday on changes to the zoning ordinance’s rules for contractors’ yards. Both bodies passed the revisions unanimously after months of discussion on the topic. The...
by Ireland Hayes | May 14, 2025 | Art, Education
The Rappahannock County High School drama department presented its rendition of “Beetlejuice Jr.” last weekend, a musical based on the 1988 movie turned Broadway show that follows “the story of a strange and unusual teenager” grieving the loss of her mother. Students...
by Ireland Hayes | May 9, 2025 | People, Politics, Top Story
‘Everybody deserves a day off … that was my hope for him’ When innkeeper Amanda Huff answered the phone at the Foster Harris House bed and breakfast last Friday morning to take a lodging reservation for the next night, she never could have imagined to whom she would...
by Ireland Hayes | May 5, 2025 | Local Government, Town
Patrick O’Connell: ‘Forty-seven years. Give me a little trust’ The Town of Washington’s Architectural Review Board tabled an application from The Inn at Little Washington to build a tower addition to The Parsonage guesthouse, despite pleas from chef proprietor Patrick...
by Bob Hurley | May 4, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
‘We never identified ourselves as hippies’ Many of the women who moved here during what some Rappahannock locals called the “hippie invasion” in the 1970s — a movement of peace, love and free-spirited lifestyles — stayed on. Over the decade, communes like “Spyder...