by Tim Carrington | Aug 25, 2025 | Business, Environment
The Piedmont Environmental Council is scaling up its mission of awareness-raising and warning about the proliferation of energy-hungry data centers in Virginia by launching a statewide campaign, “Virginians for a Smarter Digital Future.” It acts as a counterweight to...
by Tim Carrington | Aug 18, 2025 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
Former FBI, CIA director and Rappahannock resident dies at 101 Judge William H. Webster, former director of the FBI and the CIA died last Friday at 101, and friends, policy analysts and national media began an extended reflection on his person and record in...
by Daphne Hutchinson | Aug 10, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
Mary Katherine Ishee died July 13 on a Sperryville hilltop in the former Hopewell Baptist Church where she swung a hammer, sanded floors and painted walls to transform history into a home. She was surrounded by members of her large and loving family, including many of...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Aug 4, 2025 | Features, Politics, Sidebar, Top Story
Here’s what we know…and don’t yet know. We read about “the cuts,” then waited for what they’d mean. With the signing into law of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this month, and now six months into President Trump’s administration, a picture slowly...
by Tim Carrington | Aug 4, 2025 | Health, Sidebar
Reduced health care, access to services Rappahannock County and other rural areas are likely to be hit the hardest by cuts in Medicaid, the health insurance program that more than one in five Americans depend on. “The consensus is that between 300,000 and 400,000...
