by Ireland Hayes | Mar 14, 2024 | Agriculture, Features, Sidebar
One morning after a storm, Debbie Capasso woke up to three camels standing in her yard. Little did she know, a chance encounter nine years ago with an exotic animal would turn into a lifelong commitment to another. When the camels’ owner came to claim them and return...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 23, 2024 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
For 30 years, he was Rappahannock’s game warden Jim Bankston, Rappahannock’s game warden and protector of people and wild resources for 30 years, was a conservation law enforcement officer. His first allegiance was to conservation, and his priority was education,...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jan 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education, Health, Politics
Supervisor championed his beloved county Roger Allen Welch believed in service. It was a belief he practiced faithfully for a lifetime, continuing his good works through a hard-fought battle with Parkinson’s disease that ended Dec. 11 at the age of 77 in his Flint...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Dec 5, 2023 | Politics
Hundreds of Rappahannock County residents and visitors “decked the halls” of Little Washington on Sunday for this year’s annual Christmas celebration, thanks to months of preparation by a committee of volunteers from around the county. Judges of the parade included...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Nov 26, 2023 | Art, Business, Education, Health, Politics
Veditz_groupPaula Veditz Marotta, Debbie Veditz Griffith, front row, with Greg Randall, Ray Veditz, Frank Veditz, Rick Veditz and Joey Seifner at Veditz and Company Brewing’s Fall Family Fest last month. Veditz and Company Brewing makes history as county students,...
