
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.
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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 moreTake our poll on whether you think Virginia lawmakers should end the ban on Sunday hunting.
Read moreThe 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 moreCharges 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 morePublic 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.
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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.
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Take our poll on whether you think Virginia lawmakers should end the ban on Sunday hunting.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Deputy James “Ronnie” Dodson, left, holds the certificate he received Dec. 8 upon graduation from the...
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Kevin Adams, co-owner of the Gay Street Inn, caught a full moon settling over Massies Mountain just west of...
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Photographer Gary Anthes took some pictures at the Rappahannock Historical Society’s second annual “Last Night Rappahannock” New Year’s Eve...
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Claudia Ross at Rose Hill Farm, on U.S. 211 not far from the town of Washington, took this telephoto...
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At the 4-H Community Club’s first-ever Jingle Bell 5K Run/Walk in the town of Washington earlier this month, early...
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That spirit grabbed the illustrious Lunch Bunch as they last week honored Gene Farmelo (seated, center) who is going...
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More, better pictures in Version 2.0 of our “Christmas in Little Washington” parade and festival slideshow — for which...
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NOTE: There’s a newer, better version of this slideshow here. A beautiful day, and maybe the best Christmas in...
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For this year’s fall recital, nine school-age musicians shared the limelight with three adults, all participants in the Rappahannock...
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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...

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...

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...

“Clouds are Nature’s poetry spoken in a whisper in the rarefied air between crest...

Winter keeps coming in fits and starts, and our migratory birds here in the...

We’re not the only ones who enjoy Indian summer. Animals that seemed to have...

I knew as a kid that toads didn’t actually sit on toadstools (hookah-smoking caterpillars...
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