by Bob Hurley | Feb 10, 2025 | Agriculture, Business, doers, Education, Local Services, People, Top Story
Background: Co-owner, Waterpenny Farm in Sperryville; director, Rappahannock Nature Camp; member, Rappahannock County School Board representing the Piedmont District since 2008; member, Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection Education Committee; former vice...
by Ireland Hayes | Jan 14, 2025 | Education
Spiffy shed to be auctioned in May Two seniors at Rappahannock County High School (RCHS) have taken the lead on a semester-long construction project, building a fully-loaded “she shed/man cave” from the ground up to be auctioned in May....
by Ayana Summerlinrosa | Nov 17, 2024 | Education, Features, Pathfinders, People
Retired teacher Jane Pollard, now 78, grew up in the Slate Mills area of Rappahannock County in a close-knit Black community that thrived on unity and self-reliance despite the harsh realities of segregation and the arrival of integration in the 1950s and ‘60s. She...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Nov 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education
The new star of Rappahannock County is the kestrel, the colorful, feisty, falcon featured in this newspaper in August last year. The kestrel is North America’s smallest falcon. Its dwindling numbers have scientists mystified and now landowners in Rappahannock and...
by Ireland Hayes | Jul 12, 2024 | Education, Health
web_20231211_EMS_Class_007.jpgMarlee Colvin-Griffith takes classmate Henry Loth’s blood pressure. New course teaches CPR, life-saving skills A significant need for fire and rescue volunteers has developed in Rappahannock County, but high school students are...
