by Ireland Hayes | Jun 22, 2026 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Attorneys representing Chester Brown, who is charged with the 2023 murder and strangulation of Doris Critzer in her Washington home, requested a private hearing with a Rappahannock judge to discuss expert witnesses in the case. Commonwealth’s Attorney Art Goff, his...
by Ireland Hayes | Jun 13, 2026 | County, Education, Local Government, Politics, Sidebar, Top Story
Against the backdrop of ongoing national anxiety over school gun violence, the Rappahannock County School Board spent more than 30 minutes Tuesday debating whether a concealed carry class belongs on a public school campus — particularly one tied financially to a local...
by Ireland Hayes | Jun 12, 2026 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
Driver: Plea agreement not ‘fair enough’ A Front Royal man was sentenced to two years and five months in prison Monday after pleading guilty in Rappahannock County Circuit Court to charges stemming from a high-speed chase through Flint Hill last September that reached...
by Ireland Hayes | Jun 11, 2026 | County, Education, Local Government, Sidebar
The Rappahannock County School Board heard Tuesday why the district is planning to step away from a federal program that has provided free breakfast and lunch to all students regardless of income — and got assurances that no child will go hungry as a result. Jackie...
by Randy Rieland | Jun 9, 2026 | Health, Local servcies, Sidebar
$25,000 donation advances dementia respite program A few months ago, two area nonprofits, Rapp at Home and Aging Together, presented a program on dementia at the Rappahannock County Public Library. It drew a standing room only crowd. Sperryville resident Eve Brooks...
