by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 23, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
For 30 years, he was Rappahannock’s game warden Jim Bankston, Rappahannock’s game warden and protector of people and wild resources for 30 years, was a conservation law enforcement officer. His first allegiance was to conservation, and his priority was education,...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education, Health, Politics
Supervisor championed his beloved county Roger Allen Welch believed in service. It was a belief he practiced faithfully for a lifetime, continuing his good works through a hard-fought battle with Parkinson’s disease that ended Dec. 11 at the age of 77 in his Flint...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Education
Rae Ann Gaedke spent a lifetime turning food into love. At Nature’s Foods, Mountainside Market and Rae’s Place, for potlucks, benefits, fundraisers and barbecues, in restaurants and home kitchens, she practiced her magic. The bibbity-bobbity-boo was equally divided...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Dec 21, 2023 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Local Services, Politics
A special delivery of fresh apples — a whole lot of apples — helps residents in need This is a story about apples. Lots of apples. Enough apples to make more pies than you can eat in a few lifetimes. Eugene Triplett’s role in the tale began early on a Friday the week...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Oct 6, 2023 | Business
Ed Gannon Inn general managerPrior to coming to Little Washington, new Inn general manager Ed Gannon helped launch a 700-acre resort in California’s Napa Valley. Ed Gannon, The Inn at Little Washington’s new general manager, is taking on the storied enterprise’s most...
