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...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 13, 2025 | Politics, Top Story
‘I’m so tired of yelling at the TV when DOGE … is cutting federal employees. Where’s the Democratic congressional and senate leaders?’ At a town hall in Rappahannock County Thursday night, U.S. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., warned constituents...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 10, 2025 | Sports, Top Story
The Rappahannock-Culpeper Baseball League held its opening ceremony for the start of the season last Saturday, with Gary Settle throwing the honorary first pitch at Stuart Field in Amissville. Settle, who recently retired as head of the Virginia State Police, is a...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 20, 2025 | Health, Infrastructure, Politics, Top Story
Federal cuts loom over providers, programs For nonprofits and health care providers in the region — as well as the people receiving rural health services — these are troubling times. The prospect of cutbacks in federal government funding — whether for huge health...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Local servcies, Local Services, People
Ideally, the end comes at home, in your own bed, surrounded by those you love. But it’s good to have a Plan B. That’s the core message of Ready or Not, a Rapp at Home program whose motto is, “Plan when you can, not when you have to.” It brings together small groups...
