by John McCaslin | Dec 18, 2020 | Art, Local Services
‘While I am excited for a new opportunity to be closer to home and my family, there is a big part of me saddened to leave the community I have called home for the last 10 years’ Jennifer “Jen” Parker, for more than three years the director of Social Services in...
by Sara Schonhardt | Aug 23, 2020 | Local Services, Real Estate
COVID, economic crisis make life that much harder With last month’s expiration of $600 in enhanced federal unemployment benefits coupled with bleak prospects for a new stimulus package, Rappahannock’s web of social service agencies and nonprofits is bracing for a...
by Sara Schonhardt | Aug 21, 2020 | Art, Education, Local Services
After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in mid-March, Jess Settle scrambled to find babysitters for her four children, ages 11, nine, six and one. Settle works at Piedmont Broadband and had to be in the office to field phone calls and respond to a growing number...
by Randy Rieland | Aug 6, 2020 | Art, Local Services
‘It can reach the point where it all boils over’ The county’s Department of Social Services is renewing its efforts to recruit new foster care families. In recent years, the agency has struggled to find temporary homes in Rappahannock for children needing foster care....
by Randy Rieland | Jun 11, 2020 | Art, Broadband, Local Services
Remember the opioid crisis? Not long ago, it was an awful reality of modern rural life, a relentless calamity destroying lives and damaging families. It still is. Last year, Virginia had more fatal drug overdoses — 1,617 — than ever before. But in a time of global...
