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...
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...
