by Gracie Hart Brooks | Apr 14, 2025 | Agriculture
The abrupt elimination of two national food procurement programs by the Trump administration’s DOGE unit is hitting close to home as local farmers and the food-needy communities the programs serve cope with the uncertainties. In February, the Local Food Purchase...
by Bob Hurley | Apr 14, 2025 | Agriculture
Kestrel’s migration tracked for four years Peaches, a five-year old female kestrel outfitted with a tiny solar-powered backpack transmitter, arrived in Warrenton on March 18 after completing her 560 mile spring migration journey from a farm in Georgia. This feat was a...
by Tim Carrington | Apr 13, 2025 | County, Infrastructure, Local Government
Tariff wars hit close to home Costs could threaten taxpaying households The first brick of Rappahannock’s new courthouse has yet to be laid, but it is already casting a long shadow over the county. Proposed designs have been called too big or too barn-like, but the...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 13, 2025 | Politics, Top Story
‘I’m so tired of yelling at the TV when DOGE … is cutting federal employees. Where’s the Democratic congressional and senate leaders?’ At a town hall in Rappahannock County Thursday night, U.S. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., warned constituents...
by Sophie McLeod | Apr 13, 2025 | Agriculture, Top Story
A look at prices in Rappahannock County Battered by an outbreak of bird flu and victim of global supply chain disruptions, the humble egg is having its day. Even in the rural oasis of Rappahannock County. A political barometer in recent U.S. politics, egg prices have...
