by Randy Rieland | Jul 21, 2026 | Fire/Rescue, Health, Sidebar, Top Story
Boosts emergency response by adding AEDs, planning paramedic home visits Rappahannock County is moving ahead with two new iniatives aimed at one of its biggest challenges: providing emergency and preventive healthcare in a rural county with an aging spread-out...
by Randy Rieland | Jun 9, 2026 | Health, Local servcies, Sidebar
$25,000 donation advances dementia respite program A few months ago, two area nonprofits, Rapp at Home and Aging Together, presented a program on dementia at the Rappahannock County Public Library. It drew a standing room only crowd. Sperryville resident Eve Brooks...
by Ireland Hayes | Mar 25, 2026 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Health issues — ‘wiggy hormones’ — led to arrests, he says Attorney James William “Bill” Fletcher III pleaded guilty last Thursday to two counts of reckless driving over the 2024 Christmas holiday for which he received suspended jail time, fines and a year of...
by Tim Carrington | Jan 1, 2026 | Art, Sidebar, Top Story
Kathy Waller Stewart, currently the featured artist at the Middle Street Gallery, followed a road to art that ran through years of medical training, parenthood, a career as an oncologist, then, after early retirement, a rigorous four-year immersion at the Studio...
by Gracie Hart Brooks | Oct 5, 2025 | Agriculture, Sidebar, Top Story
Orchards hit hard by late frost Rappahannock fruit growers could well look back on the 2025 season as among their least bountiful. First it was the peach crop, with losses of up to 70%, victim of unusually warm temperatures in March, followed by a hard April freeze....
