If the state legislature approves, church bells could soon be one of two familiar sounds that ring out on Sundays – the other being the gunshots of hunters.
Read More »
This Week’s Paper
All the news
For the current week's full Rappahannock News — usually available by 9 p.m. Wednesdays — check out our new eEdition, where you can sign up for your four-week free trial subscription!
Advertisement
- Scoping out Sunday hunting
If the state legislature approves, church bells could soon be one of two familiar sounds that ring out on Sundays – the other being the gunshots of hunters.
Read more - Hunting on Sundays? Take our poll.
Take our poll on whether you think Virginia lawmakers should end the ban on Sunday hunting.
Read more - ‘Intricate Relationships’ matter
The perpetual friction between “come-heres” and “from-heres” in Rappahannock County is not limited to humans. Homegrown naturalist Bruce Jones speaks on ways to bring native flora and fauna back home.
Read more - Marijuana-growing charges downgraded
Charges of growing and distributing marijuana against several members of a Castleton family – the result of flyovers by law enforcement on an unrelated manhunt last summer – were downgraded in Rappahannock County District Court last week to possession charges, misdemeanors to which the defendants pleaded guilty and paid fines....
Read more - Supervisors weigh public (and public safety) comments
Public comment provided the highlights of last week’s Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors meeting, at which the board also reappointed Wakefield supervisor Roger Welch as its chairman.
Read more
Featured This Week
Scoping out Sunday hunting
Hunting on Sundays? Take our poll.
Take our poll on whether you think Virginia lawmakers should end the ban on Sunday hunting.
Read More »
‘Intricate Relationships’ matter
The perpetual friction between “come-heres” and “from-heres” in Rappahannock County is not limited to humans. Homegrown naturalist Bruce Jones speaks on ways to bring native flora and fauna back home.
Read More »
Marijuana-growing charges downgraded
Charges of growing and distributing marijuana against several members of a Castleton family – the result of flyovers by law enforcement on an unrelated manhunt last summer – were downgraded in Rappahannock County District Court last week to possession charges, misdemeanors to which the defendants pleaded guilty and paid fines. Martin Heck Henze, 55, pleaded...
Read More »
Supervisors weigh public (and public safety) comments
Public comment provided the highlights of last week’s Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors meeting, at which the board also reappointed Wakefield supervisor Roger Welch as its chairman.
Read More »
School Board: Playground nearer, meetings earlier
Excavators broke ground this week at the Rappahannock County Elementary School playground site, Stonewall-Hawthorne district board member Paul Brown announced at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.
Read More »
Woods makes it to nationals
This winter, Julia Wood, an eighth-grade Rappahannock County High School Panther cross country runner, clawed her way to the National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where she finished in the top 20 percent. To qualify for the Dec. 10 nationwide competition, Wood had to earn her slot. “There were two...
Read More »
Crime and Courts for Jan. 12
A plea agreement has likely been reached with 18-year-old Cameron MacArthur of Amissville in the cases spawned by August’s burglary, arson and manhunt on Grand View Road.
Read More »
Photo/Video/Audio
Photos: Deputy doings
Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Deputy James “Ronnie” Dodson, left, holds the certificate he received Dec. 8 upon graduation from the...
Read More »
Photos: A glimpse of winter
Kevin Adams, co-owner of the Gay Street Inn, caught a full moon settling over Massies Mountain just west of...
Read More »
Slideshow: Last Night Rappahannock
Photographer Gary Anthes took some pictures at the Rappahannock Historical Society’s second annual “Last Night Rappahannock” New Year’s Eve...
Read More »
Photo: Bald eagle at Rose Hill
Claudia Ross at Rose Hill Farm, on U.S. 211 not far from the town of Washington, took this telephoto...
Read More »
Photos: Winning — with bells on
At the 4-H Community Club’s first-ever Jingle Bell 5K Run/Walk in the town of Washington earlier this month, early...
Read More »
Photos: Holiday spirit, continued
That spirit grabbed the illustrious Lunch Bunch as they last week honored Gene Farmelo (seated, center) who is going...
Read More »
Christmas parade slideshow, version 2.0
More, better pictures in Version 2.0 of our “Christmas in Little Washington” parade and festival slideshow — for which...
Read More »
Slideshow: Christmas in Little Washington
NOTE: There’s a newer, better version of this slideshow here. A beautiful day, and maybe the best Christmas in...
Read More »
Photo: Lessons learned
For this year’s fall recital, nine school-age musicians shared the limelight with three adults, all participants in the Rappahannock...
Read More »
150 Years Ago This Week
150 Years Ago This Week: Winter military maneuvers, campaigns
Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s Confederate troops, moving from Bath in western Virginia, on Sunday, Jan. 5, in pursuit of Federal troops halted on the Potomac River across from Hancock, Md. For two days they bombarded Federal troops garrisoned in Hancock. Brig. Gen. Frederick Lander refused Jackson’s demands for surrender, and the Confederates searched unsuccessfully...
150 Years Ago This Week: Pride swallowed, hearts torn
December 1861 Tensions between the United States and Great Britain over the Trent affair were high as Christmas week in 1861 dawned. In Washington on Dec. 23, Lord Lyons, the British ambassador, conferred again with Secretary of State Seward. Lyons formally and officially presented the British note demanding the surrender of Confederate commissioners Mason...
150 Years Ago This Week: Another British ship seized
The first winter of the War was upon the people North and South, as the last month of 1861 opened. The conflict, which everyone expected to be over before the end of the Summer, now seemed to be dragging on. On Sunday, Dec. 1, President Lincoln asked some pointed questions about a possible forward movement of...
Wild Ideas nature column
Wild Ideas: The romance of cloudspotting
“Clouds are Nature’s poetry spoken in a whisper in the rarefied air between crest...
Wild Ideas: The grapes of repast
Winter keeps coming in fits and starts, and our migratory birds here in the...
Wild Ideas: Indian summer brings out the critters
We’re not the only ones who enjoy Indian summer. Animals that seemed to have...
Wild Ideas: Identifying fungi, way more fun than eating them
I knew as a kid that toads didn’t actually sit on toadstools (hookah-smoking caterpillars...
Follow Us!
© 2009-2012 Rappahannock Media 
Follow Us!