With state budget in limbo, higher real estate, new cigarette taxes possible County and state budget plans are unfolding on dual tracks: the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors this week began digging into a proposed set of tax increases they hope to avoid, while...
Comment articles reflect the opinion of the writer(s), not the Rapp News. Comment below or by writing a letter to the editor: [email protected]. Initially, I didn't want to do this contest, yet I had everything planned out. I knew I wanted to create something about...
Local grape-growers are on tenterhooks, in the face of expert warnings that a sap-sucking agricultural vandal – the invasive spotted lanternfly – most likely will descend on their vineyards in the coming spring. An adept hitchhiker, the pest already has Rappahannock...
The Middle Street Gallery in Washington is putting on its annual “Members and Friends” exhibition, in which members of the arts cooperative show their works alongside those of invited guest artists. Views of the natural world, the built world, and even the...
The Rappahannock News and Foothills Forum on Tuesday evening held a reception at the Little Washington Theatre to announce the winners of the 2022 Storytelling Contest. Winners, who earned cash prizes, were selected by an independent panel of judges who evaluated each...
New data shows ranks of most active county fire and rescue volunteers down as service calls increase, force ages It’s one of Rappahannock’s more worrisome fault lines. For years, the aging of the county’s population has rippled through the community’s fire and rescue...
A Foothills Forum/Rappahannock News occasional series Give them a chance and Rappahannock County citizens will speak freely about what divides us – and unites us – living in this place we call home. Beginning in January, a team of Rappahannock News reporters and...
Many of the world’s art treasures are celebrated for having endured the battering of multiple millennia; others fascinate us because they fall apart soon after they’re created. This so-called ephemeral art is the focus of a first-time Rappahannock competition, with...
The Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community (RAAC) is holding its annual autobiographical storytelling event "No Ordinary Person” in June after canceling a planned showing in January amid a winter COVID-19 surge. The event, scheduled to take place Saturday,...
On the Vernal Equinox, women gather in Castleton to find strength and support in each other Years of monthly potluck dinners among women in Rappahannock County became a safe place for women of all ages to take refuge and connect with themselves and their sisterhood....
Chester Gap chief: “It’s bad. People don’t realize how bad. We’re fighting it tooth and nail right now.” In December, a crew from the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad responded to a call. They picked up a patient and headed for Fauquier Hospital. There, they waited...
Update: On Saturday, RAAC issued this statement: In light of the uncertainties surrounding the current state of covid, RAAC has decided to once again suspend indoor activities. So we are canceling the "No Ordinary Person" event planned for January 8 and 9, with the...
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