by Ireland Hayes | May 19, 2025 | Local Government, Town
Speed limits in town reduced this weekend The Town Council meeting Monday night included three other developments: the unveiling of plans for Rush River Commons phase two, approval of a special-use permit for White Moose Inn for two additional rooms and an...
by Ireland Hayes | May 19, 2025 | Local Government, Town
Proposal is ‘gratuitous,’ shows ‘poor planning by the county’ Town of Washington officials received a letter Monday from Hampton Supervisor Keir Whitson outlining a proposal — raising the town’s meals and lodging taxes from 2.5% to 4% and giving that additional...
by Ireland Hayes | May 14, 2025 | Art, Education
The Rappahannock County High School drama department presented its rendition of “Beetlejuice Jr.” last weekend, a musical based on the 1988 movie turned Broadway show that follows “the story of a strange and unusual teenager” grieving the loss of her mother. Students...
by Ireland Hayes | May 9, 2025 | People, Politics, Top Story
‘Everybody deserves a day off … that was my hope for him’ When innkeeper Amanda Huff answered the phone at the Foster Harris House bed and breakfast last Friday morning to take a lodging reservation for the next night, she never could have imagined to whom she would...
by Daphne Hutchinson | Apr 29, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
What ‘love, prayer and laughter’ can do Late March last year, Rappahannock icon Ted Pellegatta went to bed feeling fine, a little achy now and then but still chipper at 84, covering two or three miles daily along Sperryville’s Thornton River with his walking buddy Ed...
