by Ireland Hayes | Dec 1, 2025 | Crime and Courts, Sidebar
‘We are really, seriously having a problem’ he tells judge Chester Brown had his day — and say — in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Thursday, airing frustrations about his lawyer and how the murder case against him is being handled. Brown, 65, a former Washington...
by Ayana Summerlinrosa | Jun 22, 2025 | Pathfinders, People
At 13, she desegregated Warren County High School In the heart of rural Virginia, an incredible story of strength and transformation unfolds through Betty Kilby Fisher Baldwin. It twists and turns through her eight decades, but pivotal to who she is today was an act...
by Ireland Hayes | Jun 19, 2025 | Education, People
Over 100 people — classmates, teachers, school principals and superintendent, families — gathered around the Rappahannock County Elementary School gazebo last Thursday for a candlelight memorial in remembrance of Jorge Alfredo Hernandez Velasco, a 13-year-old student...
by Ireland Hayes | May 23, 2025 | Crime and Courts
Bail revoked after new indictments A Washington man’s bond was revoked in Rappahannock County Circuit Court last Friday after a judge reviewed seven new indictments on charges of solicitation of a minor by a grand jury and a “disturbing” criminal complaint against...
by Bob Hurley | Apr 14, 2025 | Agriculture
Kestrel’s migration tracked for four years Peaches, a five-year old female kestrel outfitted with a tiny solar-powered backpack transmitter, arrived in Warrenton on March 18 after completing her 560 mile spring migration journey from a farm in Georgia. This feat was a...