by Sara Schonhardt | Jun 27, 2023 | Agriculture, Art, Business, Education, Local Services
Stories of the search for home in Rappahannock By Sara Schonhardt — For Foothills Forum Home means something different to everyone. Yet what we discovered through responses to a Community Housing Questionnaire we circulated last year is that those who choose to make...
by Tim Carrington | Oct 3, 2022 | Business, Fire/Rescue
After missing a payment for broadband expansion that the county agreed to meet as part of a regional agreement, the Rappahannock County Broadband Authority, comprised of the same members of the Board of Supervisors, will take up the issue again at a joint meeting on...
by Bob Hurley | Jul 12, 2021 | Art, Crime and Courts, Local Services
‘Drugs are everywhere’ But county consistently has had among the lowest violent crime rates in Virginia A Rapp News/Foothills Forum Special Report Rappahannock County is blessed with one of the lowest serious crime rates in Virginia. So what worries Rappahannock...
by Randy Rieland | May 26, 2021 | Health, Local Services
While the focus has been on COVID-19, drug overdose deaths in the state spike to record levels Addiction, it’s said, thrives in privacy. So as everything began to shut down in March 2020, and isolation became a way of life during the pandemic, people in the treatment...
by Tim Carrington | May 5, 2021 | Agriculture, Art
A costly sewer plant has become a chronic money pit. Proposed rate increases hit the “company town’s” anchor, The Inn at Little Washington, hard, raising tensions Washington, Virginia — home to the celebrated Inn at Little Washington — is known for meals and memories...
