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Bail revoked after new indictments A Washington man’s bond was revoked in Rappahannock County Circuit Court last Friday after a judge reviewed seven new indictments on charges of solicitation of a minor by a grand jury and a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 Ireland Hayes | May 19, 2025 | Local Government, Town
Proposal is ‘gratuitous,’ shows ‘poor planning by the county’ Town of Washington officials received a letter Monday from Hampton Supervisor Keir Whitson outlining a proposal — raising the town’s meals and lodging taxes from 2.5% to 4% and giving that additional...
by Tim Carrington | May 4, 2025 | Art, Education, Features, Top Story
Songwriter celebrates 25 years of making music with kids For a quarter century, Paul Reisler and his collaborators at Kid Pan Alley have inspired nearly 3,000 songs, written and performed by about 80,000 school kids across the United States. Reisler — songwriter,...
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...
