by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Aug 4, 2025 | Features, Politics, Sidebar, Top Story
Here’s what we know…and don’t yet know. We read about “the cuts,” then waited for what they’d mean. With the signing into law of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this month, and now six months into President Trump’s administration, a picture slowly...
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 Ireland Hayes | May 7, 2024 | Crime and Courts, Education, Health, Local Services
Emergency responders recreate fatal crash before prom Rappahannock County High School students and county emergency responders simulated a fatal car crash last Friday, hoping to teach young drivers about the dangers and consequences of impaired driving, before the...
by Bob Hurley | Apr 23, 2024 | Local Services, People
Joanne Tepper Food Pantry volunteer, Fauquier Free Clinic nurse, RCHS Band fundraiser, Board of Elections poll worker. Retired nurse and resident of Castleton since 1982. doers-17-story.jpgJoanne Tepper Motivating Spark: I wanted to get to know members of the...
by Randy Rieland | Apr 22, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Health, Local Services, Politics
Dr. McCue closing medical practice: How his departure affects community health Dr. John McCue tells the story of a visit from a patient he had come to know well. They chatted about serious science – physics and chemistry, as he remembers it – until finally McCue asked...
