by Tim Carrington | Aug 18, 2025 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
Former FBI, CIA director and Rappahannock resident dies at 101 Judge William H. Webster, former director of the FBI and the CIA died last Friday at 101, and friends, policy analysts and national media began an extended reflection on his person and record in...
by Bob Hurley | Aug 17, 2025 | Environment, Local servcies, People, Sidebar, Top Story
Who’s at risk and where? New ways to cope The owners of The Black Twig restaurant in Sperryville know all too well the life-threatening impact of severe flooding. Abigail Gleason was left stranded at her home the evening of May 13 with her two young sons on one side...
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 Emily Oaks | Aug 3, 2025 | Features, People, Sidebar, Top Story
A political debate, utterly free of animosity, took place July 20 at Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison County where two men in 18th-century breeches and tricornered hats reenacted an event that occurred on the same spot in January 1789. Friends James Madison and James...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jul 20, 2025 | Agriculture, Education, Top Story
Young 4‑H and Future Farmers of America (FFA) exhibitors from around the region paraded their prized livestock around the arena last weekend at the Culpeper-Madison-Rappahannock (CMR) Farm Show. The show took over the Culpeper Agriculture Enterprise from last...
