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School health clinic opens for Rapp at Home seniors

School health clinic opens for Rapp at Home seniors

by Randy Rieland | Jan 26, 2025 | Business, Health, Local Services

Pilot project also offers telehealth services Members of Rapp at Home, a nonprofit for seniors, can now make appointments for non-emergency care at the telehealth clinic in the Rappahannock County Elementary School.  The pilot project involving Rappahannock County...
Rural health group seeking ways to bring more health services, pharmacy to Rappahannock County

Rural health group seeking ways to bring more health services, pharmacy to Rappahannock County

by Randy Rieland | Jan 25, 2025 | Business, Health, Local Services

The Rappahannock Rural Health Network (RRHN) is looking at how to expand the public schools’ health clinic to serve others in the community, provide check-ins of older residents by fire and rescue personnel, and even bring a pharmacy into the county.  These are among...

Rappahannock County becoming more involved with fire and rescue

by Randy Rieland | Jan 8, 2025 | Art, Business, Education, Fire/Rescue, Health, Local Services, Politics

Rappahannock County officials continue to look at ways to play a bigger role in the community’s emergency services without threatening the independence of local volunteer fire and rescue companies. WHY IT MATTERS For years now, the aging of Rappahannock’s population —...

Supporting Shenandoah artists, honoring Kevin Adams

by Tim Carrington | Dec 26, 2024 | Art, Education, Health, Politics

Jay Ward Brown creates fund for artists, in honor of his late husband Beloved Rappahannock artist Kevin Adams experienced an exceptionally productive period in 2017, when he relocated from the Town of Washington to the peaks, outcroppings and crannies of the...
Jennifer Ackerman: The writer who follows the birds

Jennifer Ackerman: The writer who follows the birds

by Tim Carrington | Dec 19, 2024 | Health

‘Owl-struck’ author tells what an owl knows One of five sisters growing up in Washington, D.C., Jennifer Ackerman from age seven would set out before sunrise to observe birds along the Potomac with her father, who held a demanding job in government while nurturing a...
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