by Ireland Hayes | Feb 1, 2026 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
Age is usually treated as a limit — a line that, once crossed, confines people and slows them down. But for four remarkable centenarian women in Rappahannock County, their age is not a restriction — it’s just a number. Marie Ridder, Doris Rowzie, Joyce Abell and Bess...
by Ireland Hayes | Dec 1, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
‘We are really, seriously having a problem’ he tells judge Chester Brown had his day — and say — in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Thursday, airing frustrations about his lawyer and how the murder case against him is being handled. Brown, 65, a former Washington...
by Ireland Hayes | Sep 8, 2025 | Education, Infrastructure, Sidebar
Fundraising will be tough despite support The Rappahannock County Public Library’s $6.5 million plan to expand and renovate its building is ambitious but achievable, according to a recent feasibility study that found strong public support. However, it warned...
by Tim Carrington | Aug 18, 2025 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
Former FBI, CIA director and Rappahannock resident dies at 101 Judge William H. Webster, former director of the FBI and the CIA died last Friday at 101, and friends, policy analysts and national media began an extended reflection on his person and record in...
by Bob Hurley | Apr 1, 2025 | doers, Features, Fire/Rescue, People
Background: Assistant chief, Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue (AVFR); part-time EMT medic, Rappahannock advanced life support program; longtime president and coach, Rappahannock Athletic Association/Rappahannock Culpeper Baseball (RAA/RCB), Amissville; former...
