Give Local Piedmont, a local 24-hour online fundraiser, last week secured nearly $300,000 for more than 50 nonprofit organizations that serve Rappahannock County, according to data provided by campaign organizer the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation. The 10th...
In normal years, Virginia’s budget plan is supposed to be pretty much done by April except for any late changes recommended by the governor. But for the second year in row, the politically split General Assembly is heading into spring under a cloud of uncertainty over...
As a young man, Hugh Hill decided to follow his dream, and it swept him into three parallel careers: emergency medicine, the law, and the theater. Far from being overwhelmed by this vocational trinity, Hill, a native Virginian and for eight years a part-time resident...
local news logo There is a danger in painting with broad brushes, even when that’s not the intention. So let me be clear: Most newspapers aren’t dying, and the Rappahannock News certainly isn’t going anywhere. This week, we feature a summary version of our partner...
local news logo Local news – arguably as important to democracy as utilities are to everyday life – is imperiled. The erosion of the advertising-based business model for local newspapers – still the primary source for local news – means there are far fewer journalists...
The Northern Piedmont Community Foundation on Tuesday announced it awarded $329,500 to nonprofits serving the region, three of which are based in Rappahannock County, through the Community Assistance Grant cycle. Funded by the PATH Foundation and the Mary Virginia...
local news logo Claudia A. Whitworth was 18 in 1945 when she began working with her father on the Roanoke Tribune, the African-American weekly he founded shortly before World War II. In its columns, the Rev. F.E. Alexander – Baptist minister, journalist and printer –...
local news logo If you go out to the coffee shop in Monterey, Va., with The Recorder publisherAnne Adams, don’t expect to eat quickly. “It’s very difficult to get through lunch,” said Betsy Edwards, executive director of the Virginia Press Association. “Every single...
When the Christmas parade float bearing grand marshal Billy Coleburn, longtime mayor of Blackstone, Va., rolled through the small Southside town, he hopped down and began snapping photos of the colorful marching bands, cheerleaders, elves, beaming bystanders and a...
Lifelong newspaperman Carlos Santos was once part of a three-person Richmond Times-Dispatch bureau in Charlottesville, one of several outposts across the Commonwealth for Virginia’s second-largest daily. Laid off in 2009 along with dozens of other reporters as the...
Greg Glassner worked at six newspapers over a 42-year career: afternoon dailies in Syracuse, N.Y., and Norfolk, and four weeklies in Virginia, only one of which is still publishing, the Madison County Eagle. He edited the Herald-Progress in Ashland for eight years and...
One of the biggest budget hurdles that Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) faces is its Local Composite Index (LCI). That’s the complex formula used by Virginia to determine how much funding each county receives from the state to pay for public education. Each...
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