by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, Local servcies, People, Top Story
Growing old and alone in Rappahannock County Nancy Studds is 79 and lives by herself in her Sperryville home. And that gives her pause. “If you fall and you can’t get up,” she said, “you know nobody’s checking on you.” She zeroed in on a common fear among seniors...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, People
Suzanne Winter-Rose remembers well the day she met Bess Lucking. It was September 2023 and Winter-Rose, a Rapp at Home volunteer, had been told about a 99-year-old woman living atop White Rose Mountain, near Sperryville. The woman — Winter-Rose heard — wasn’t much...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, Food Pantry, Health, Local servcies, People, Top Story
Is social isolation hazardous to your health? Jake Jones first came to the Senior Center in Castleton about a year ago. It was his wife’s idea. He needed something to help fill his days after a stroke took away his ability to drive. “It was something to do and a place...