by Ireland Hayes | Mar 31, 2025 | Crime and Courts
A Rappahannock County Circuit Court judge sentenced a Luray man to six months in jail last Thursday for violating probation 48 times following his conviction in a robbery at Sperryville resident Bill Fletcher’s property in 2020. Terry Dovel, 25, pleaded guilty to...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, People
Suzanne Winter-Rose remembers well the day she met Bess Lucking. It was September 2023 and Winter-Rose, a Rapp at Home volunteer, had been told about a 99-year-old woman living atop White Rose Mountain, near Sperryville. The woman — Winter-Rose heard — wasn’t much...
by Ireland Hayes | Sep 27, 2024 | Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
Saturday event will support former high school student Totality Martial Arts and Rappahannock County community volunteers will host “Kicking Out Cancer,” a community event Saturday to raise awareness for childhood cancer and support a local family battling...
by Randy Rieland | Sep 24, 2024 | Education, Health, Sidebar
What schools and parents can do Time was when teen dread and dark moods were largely viewed as unfortunate features of adolescence, conditions driven by insecurities and hormonal changes that in time would pass. It’s an attitude that can linger, particularly among...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 24, 2024 | Health
As the pandemic wanes, its impact on addiction and recovery continues The worst of the pandemic would seem to be behind us. Unfortunately, not all of it. In fact, an often-overlooked impact of COVID-19 — an alarming rise in drug and alcohol use — could be one of its...
