by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Aug 15, 2024 | Education
Summer vacation officially came to end for students (and their teachers) Wednesday when Rappahannock County Public Schools started classes for a new academic year. Here’s a look as Rappahannock County Elementary School students arrived Wednesday morning: In...
by Randy Rieland | Jul 31, 2024 | Education, Health, Sidebar
This is the first part of a series on the mental health struggles of today’s generation of teenagers, the urgent need for more support in schools and how families can get help. Schools scramble to keep up The plan, Erica Jennejahn recalls, was to get ahead of things,...
by Bob Hurley | Jul 14, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, doers, Education, Health, People, Politics
Background: Deputy Director of Programs, Headwaters Foundation, under-six coach with the Rappahannock County Soccer Association for four seasons, T-ball coach with the Rappahannock Culpeper Baseball League, clerk of Thornton Gap Regular Baptist Church and SperryFest...
by Randy Rieland | Jun 30, 2024 | Health, Local Services
sperryville fire trainingTraining at the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department in March 2023. • Among the proposals: More paid personnel, county support • Supervisors must approve committee’s recommendations Rappahannock County’s Public Safety Committee...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jun 14, 2024 | Art, Health, Politics
FF-Nol_Putnam-250-web.jpgNol Putnam works in this Huntly forge. In the way he would plan in pencil a creation to be rendered in iron, Nol Putnam is sketching out his own transition. Rappahannock County’s celebrated blacksmith, now 87, is preparing to leave his forge...
