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Bill Dietel – catalyst, mentor, model – leaves a rich legacy

Bill Dietel – catalyst, mentor, model – leaves a rich legacy

by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education, Politics

Bill Dietel portrait crop Bill Dietel lived in the ripple effects he helped create.  As an educator, he sent thousands of young people into the world more convinced of their own capacities to live a fruitful life. As a philanthropist, he helped convert bank accounts...
Home sweet home: A reach for many in Rappahannock, Fauquier and Culpeper

Home sweet home: A reach for many in Rappahannock, Fauquier and Culpeper

by Tim Carrington | Apr 6, 2024 | Features, People, Sidebar

With contributed reports from Ireland Hayes, Hunter Savery and Allison Brophy Champion Housing insecurity triggers stress, risk, despair People who are financially secure and people who are financially strained both consider housing central to their well-being. But...
Squeezed out: Many Piedmont residents stymied by rent, mortgages beyond reach

Squeezed out: Many Piedmont residents stymied by rent, mortgages beyond reach

by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 5, 2024 | Politics

In big cities, small towns and rolling Piedmont counties like Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier, homes have become scarcer, costlier and more likely to be beyond the financial reach of many residents communities value and count on —  teachers, health aides, elderly...
Chester Brown awaits trial on third firearm charge

Chester Brown awaits trial on third firearm charge

by Ireland Hayes | Apr 5, 2024 | Crime and Courts

chester brown 3-21-24Chester Brown arrives at the Rappahannock County Courthouse Thursday morning, March 21, 2024. Found guilty last week on two others Chester Brown, who was found guilty of two firearm charges in Rappahannock County Circuit Court last Thursday, is...
Will more town lighting spoil Rappahannock County’s dark skies?

Will more town lighting spoil Rappahannock County’s dark skies?

by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 3, 2024 | Business, Politics

Protecting it ‘depends on goodwill of people in the town’ Rappahannock’s dark sky is rare, so rare that it’s one of the darkest spots along the East Coast and advocates want to keep it that way. So, too, its county park has received top international recognition for...
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