by Bob Hurley | Oct 3, 2020 | Education, People
Jerry Goebel: School bus driver, Rappahannock County Public Schools; former member of the Washington Town Council and its treasurer for 17 years; retired bank branch manager. Has lived in Rappahannock for 22 years. Resides with Teri Sullivan, his wife, in Washington....
by Sara Schonhardt | Aug 23, 2020 | Local Services, Real Estate
COVID, economic crisis make life that much harder With last month’s expiration of $600 in enhanced federal unemployment benefits coupled with bleak prospects for a new stimulus package, Rappahannock’s web of social service agencies and nonprofits is bracing for a...
by Sara Schonhardt | Aug 21, 2020 | Art, Education, Local Services
After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in mid-March, Jess Settle scrambled to find babysitters for her four children, ages 11, nine, six and one. Settle works at Piedmont Broadband and had to be in the office to field phone calls and respond to a growing number...
by Sara Schonhardt | Aug 17, 2020 | Broadband, Education
From a hilltop overlooking Madison County, several members of the Rappahannock County Broadband Committee observed on Monday how a local service provider brought the internet to Graves Mountain Lodge and contemplated what was possible for their own mountainous...
by Randy Rieland | Jun 23, 2020 | Broadband, Education
Officials assume in-person classes will resume in August ‘We need to work out a lot of details in a very short amount of time’ When Rappahannock students head back to school in a few months, it’s likely they’ll need to get health screenings every morning, their...
