by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, Local servcies, People, Top Story
Growing old and alone in Rappahannock County Nancy Studds is 79 and lives by herself in her Sperryville home. And that gives her pause. “If you fall and you can’t get up,” she said, “you know nobody’s checking on you.” She zeroed in on a common fear among seniors...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, Food Pantry, Health, Local servcies, People, Top Story
Is social isolation hazardous to your health? Jake Jones first came to the Senior Center in Castleton about a year ago. It was his wife’s idea. He needed something to help fill his days after a stroke took away his ability to drive. “It was something to do and a place...
by Ayana Summerlinrosa | Feb 27, 2025 | Features, Pathfinders, People, Politics
Rappahannock County’s calming beauty and rolling hills hold stories from the Civil War era waiting to be told. Howard Lambert, a Culpeper native and the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to...
by Ireland Hayes | Jan 14, 2025 | Education
Spiffy shed to be auctioned in May Two seniors at Rappahannock County High School (RCHS) have taken the lead on a semester-long construction project, building a fully-loaded “she shed/man cave” from the ground up to be auctioned in May....
by Ayana Summerlinrosa | Nov 17, 2024 | Education, Features, Pathfinders, People
Retired teacher Jane Pollard, now 78, grew up in the Slate Mills area of Rappahannock County in a close-knit Black community that thrived on unity and self-reliance despite the harsh realities of segregation and the arrival of integration in the 1950s and ‘60s. She...
