First person: On the front lines at Amissville’s Charming Hill Farm As a journalist in rural Rappahannock County, sometimes work is more like play. Last week I went on assignment to Charming Hill Farm in Amissville to answer the question, “What is it like to cuddle a...
‘I want to…be able to help people who really need it’ The Rappahannock Benevolent Fund recently welcomed a new team member, hoping to expand the reach of its Safe and Healthy Homes program. Rafael Vittitow, a local contractor and Washington resident, joined the...
Background: Deputy Director of Programs, Headwaters Foundation, under-six coach with the Rappahannock County Soccer Association for four seasons, T-ball coach with the Rappahannock Culpeper Baseball League, clerk of Thornton Gap Regular Baptist Church and SperryFest...
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 stepping...
sperryville fire trainingTraining at the Sperryville Volunteer Fire Department in March 2023. • Among the proposals: More paid personnel, county support • Supervisors must approve committee's recommendations Rappahannock County’s Public Safety Committee unanimously...
William McGinnisWilliam McGinnis leaving Rappahannock County Circuit Court. • Resident’s sentence suspended • Judge: ‘I think you pose a danger’ A Rappahannock County Circuit Court judge “with some reluctance” accepted a plea deal Friday between William McGinnis, a...
FF-Nol_Putnam-250-web.jpgNol Putnam works in this Huntly forge. In the way he would plan in pencil a creation to be rendered in iron, Nol Putnam is sketching out his own transition. Rappahannock County’s celebrated blacksmith, now 87, is preparing to leave his forge...
For half a century artist-blacksmith Nol Putnam transformed one of the Earth’s hardest and most unyielding substances into flowing forms, such as leaves, stems, tendrils and seed pods. His forge was loud, fiery and dangerous, and though he made his work seem plausible...
Automated External Defibrillator(AED) on the wall Rappahannock County gathering data on lifesaving cardiac devices It’s almost two years since Keir Whitson came minutes away from dying. Back in July 2022, the Rappahannock County supervisor and his family were visiting...
A Rappahannock County resident’s journey in both worlds Memoirs generally roll out the particularities of an individual’s adventure in the world. But some move to a larger stage, addressing questions of living in a just society, or simply being human....
Rappahannock County Elementary School sixth grade students and Hearthstone School students enjoyed participating in the annual Watershed Education Field Day on May 16. 2024-05-16-FF-RLEP-Watershed-1-2-web.jpgRappahannock County Elementary students submerge a tarp in...
Class of 2024 started high school when the pandemic began The class of 2024, whose entrance into Rappahannock County High School (RCHS) was defined by the COVID-19 pandemic and all of the irregularity that came with it, walked to the stage and collected their...
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