by Randy Rieland | Apr 11, 2024 | Education, Health
Watch the School Board meeting: Rappahannock County School Board Meeting, April 9, 2024 ‘Dire need for speech services’ The number of Rappahannock County students receiving special education services is climbing, a rise tied in part to the impact of the COVID...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Feb 18, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education, Health, Politics
‘His heart was always in Rappahannock’ John Anderson was the quintessential local kid who made good, a hometown hero who died on Jan. 31 at the age of 77, after a months-long battle with COVID and its complications. anderson-6-web.jpgJohn Anderson with his first pup,...
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 Ireland Hayes | Dec 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Health, Politics
The Rappahannock County School Board voted Tuesday to join 400 other school districts across the country in a lawsuit seeking damages from social media companies for their “harmful and addictive nature” that affects school children. The body voted unanimously on a...
