by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Politics
Lifelong newspaperman Carlos Santos was once part of a three-person Richmond Times-Dispatch bureau in Charlottesville, one of several outposts across the Commonwealth for Virginia’s second-largest daily. Laid off in 2009 along with dozens of other reporters as the...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Politics
Greg Glassner worked at six newspapers over a 42-year career: afternoon dailies in Syracuse, N.Y., and Norfolk, and four weeklies in Virginia, only one of which is still publishing, the Madison County Eagle. He edited the Herald-Progress in Ashland for eight years and...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Mar 27, 2023 | Art, Education
Comment articles reflect the opinion of the writer(s), not the Rapp News. Comment below or by writing a letter to the editor: [email protected]. Initially, I didn’t want to do this contest, yet I had everything planned out. I knew I wanted to create something...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Feb 9, 2023 | Health, Politics
The Benevolent Fund celebrity dinner is back Following a several year hiatus, the Benevolent Fund celebrity dinner is returning March 11 to benefit the nonprofit that provides emergency assistance to individuals and families with short-term financial needs. The last...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jun 18, 2022 | Business
The COVID pandemic has truly hurt many families with loved ones dying and others getting very sick. With many places of business closed and schools shut down coupled with the indirect effects of perhaps dwindling cash flow, isolation and loneliness; life has been sad...
