by Bob Hurley | Aug 16, 2025 | Environment, Local servcies, People, Sidebar
Abigail and Dan Gleason, owners of The Black Twig restaurant in Sperryville, and their two young sons found themselves in the thick of a flooding nightmare in mid-May. “I returned to our home in Nethers about 6 p.m. on May 13 with our two boys,” Abigail said. “The...
by Ireland Hayes | Aug 12, 2025 | Education, Sidebar
Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) narrowly avoided a potential funding shortfall this summer when key federal education grants were temporarily frozen before being restored last month. Schools Superintendent Shannon Grimsley said that while no major program...
by Tim Carrington | Aug 7, 2025 | Environment, Top Story
Rappahannock will be significantly affected by the proliferation of data centers in Northern Virginia, even if the county manages to fend off future construction proposals within the county, according to Christopher G. Miller, longtime president of the Piedmont...
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...
