by Ireland Hayes | Jan 25, 2024 | Education, Politics
Scrabble School Preservation Fund Martin Luther King Jr. celebrationThe 33rd annual Scrabble School Preservation Fund Martin Luther King Jr. celebration was screened in the Little Washington Theatre on Sunday. Faye Jordan Nicholas and William L. Jackson ‘are both...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 23, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
For 30 years, he was Rappahannock’s game warden Jim Bankston, Rappahannock’s game warden and protector of people and wild resources for 30 years, was a conservation law enforcement officer. His first allegiance was to conservation, and his priority was education,...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education, Health, Politics
Supervisor championed his beloved county Roger Allen Welch believed in service. It was a belief he practiced faithfully for a lifetime, continuing his good works through a hard-fought battle with Parkinson’s disease that ended Dec. 11 at the age of 77 in his Flint...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 16, 2024 | Business, Crime and Courts, Education, Politics
Joe-Whited-80-web.jpgMayor Joe Whited Jan. 7: Joe Whited, the Town of Washington’s new mayor, advocates a two-year holiday on meals and lodging taxes for new and expanding businesses in the community. Jan. 9: By a 3-2 margin, the county’s Board of Supervisors votes to...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Education
Rae Ann Gaedke spent a lifetime turning food into love. At Nature’s Foods, Mountainside Market and Rae’s Place, for potlucks, benefits, fundraisers and barbecues, in restaurants and home kitchens, she practiced her magic. The bibbity-bobbity-boo was equally divided...
