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 Ireland Hayes | Mar 8, 2025 | County, Infrastructure, Local Government, Politics, Real Estate
Work on revisions to transient lodging draft The Rappahannock County Planning Commission recommended approval of two tourist homes and an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) at its meeting last Thursday, but recommended denial of a third tourist home application. Tourist...
by Ayana Summerlinrosa | Feb 27, 2025 | Features, Pathfinders, People, Politics
Rappahannock County’s calming beauty and rolling hills hold stories from the Civil War era waiting to be told. Howard Lambert, a Culpeper native and the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to...
by Ireland Hayes | Feb 4, 2025 | Crime and Courts
Strasburg man dodges jury after evidence presented After the commonwealth presented evidence against him, a Strasburg man chose to accept a plea deal rather than trust a jury with his guilt or innocence in a child sexual solicitation case in Rappahannock County...
by Ireland Hayes | Feb 2, 2025 | Crime and Courts
Strasburg man dodges jury after evidence presented After the commonwealth presented evidence against him, a Strasburg man chose to accept a plea deal rather than trust a jury with his guilt or innocence in a child sexual solicitation case in Rappahannock County...
