by Ireland Hayes | May 14, 2025 | Art, Education
The Rappahannock County High School drama department presented its rendition of “Beetlejuice Jr.” last weekend, a musical based on the 1988 movie turned Broadway show that follows “the story of a strange and unusual teenager” grieving the loss of her mother. Students...
by Ireland Hayes | May 9, 2025 | People, Politics, Top Story
‘Everybody deserves a day off … that was my hope for him’ When innkeeper Amanda Huff answered the phone at the Foster Harris House bed and breakfast last Friday morning to take a lodging reservation for the next night, she never could have imagined to whom she would...
by Ireland Hayes | May 5, 2025 | Local Government, Town
Patrick O’Connell: ‘Forty-seven years. Give me a little trust’ The Town of Washington’s Architectural Review Board tabled an application from The Inn at Little Washington to build a tower addition to The Parsonage guesthouse, despite pleas from chef proprietor Patrick...
by Daphne Hutchinson | Apr 29, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
What ‘love, prayer and laughter’ can do Late March last year, Rappahannock icon Ted Pellegatta went to bed feeling fine, a little achy now and then but still chipper at 84, covering two or three miles daily along Sperryville’s Thornton River with his walking buddy Ed...
by Tim Carrington | Apr 20, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
Trinity Church carries on 40-year-old tradition The Trinity Episcopal Church Sunrise Easter Service on Red Oak Mountain — 6 o’clock April 20 — is all about overlapping: The highest feast in the Christian calendar overlaps with the celebrated burst of spring, which...
