Plan calls for 18% cut in property tax rate...But it won’t be a windfall for homeowners: Since values soared, change will keep most tax bills the same or only slightly higher Rappahannock County’s $32.9 million budget for the fiscal year beginning July contains a...
Rappahannock and its neighbors seek to balance solar power, farming and open space In the past four months: - Fauquier County’s Planning Commission has rejected two proposals to build utility solar fields on farmland in the county. - Culpeper County’s Board of...
Pete Jenkins: Farmer, auto repair mechanic, retired from Virginia Department of Transportation as a supervisor after 31 years of service. Volunteered with the Boy Scouts and Flint Hill Pentecostal Church. Family was moved from Shenandoah National Park to Jenkins...
Chuck Akre — Rappahannock resident and famed money manager — is launching a new portfolio, composed not of securities but deeply felt values and stunning horizons. The 78-year-old founder of Akre Capital Management happily accepts that he is moving from an enterprise...
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...
‘Close to 80 inches of rain fell on Rappahannock in 2018 … almost double the annual average’ It seems that almost anyone who makes their living off the land in Rappahannock has a 2018 story. Jenna Brownell, co-manager of Whippoorwill Farm, remembers standing in the...
‘The old structure is on the brink of an exciting new chapter in its almost 250-year history’ The iconic 18th century grist mill on the edge of Little Washington, which ground wheat and corn for a thriving frontier settlement that would eventually become Rappahannock...
As the saying goes, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” So goes it for many Rappahannock businesses, community organizations, farms and churches. This is the first of several reports about how many of them have adapted and innovated during the COVID-19...
When Innkeepers Drew Beard and his wife Deb Harris thought about how they would reopen the Gay Street Inn in Washington amid the COVID-19 pandemic they took a walk through the house and tried to experience it the way a guest would — everything from check-in to book...
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