by Sophie McLeod | Jun 8, 2025 | Education
RCHS ‘will always be a part of who we are’ Rappahannock County High School held its commencement ceremony May 30, a rainy Friday evening that didn’t dampen the high spirits in the school gymnasium, where 56 seniors received their diplomas and proud families and...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Nov 16, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, Education
The new star of Rappahannock County is the kestrel, the colorful, feisty, falcon featured in this newspaper in August last year. The kestrel is North America’s smallest falcon. Its dwindling numbers have scientists mystified and now landowners in Rappahannock and...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Oct 21, 2024 | Business, Crime and Courts, Education, Health, Politics
A private man in public service, Rappahannock resident celebrates 100 years “I am an old Navy man, and I heard a bosun’s pipe.” In 1978, that was William H. Webster’s reason for leaving a distinguished judicial career and the possibility of a future seat on the United...
by Ireland Hayes | Jul 12, 2024 | Education, Health
web_20231211_EMS_Class_007.jpgMarlee Colvin-Griffith takes classmate Henry Loth’s blood pressure. New course teaches CPR, life-saving skills A significant need for fire and rescue volunteers has developed in Rappahannock County, but high school students are...
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...
