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Summer Interns, Apply Within
Are you a budding journalist with multimedia chops? If so, this opportunity is right in your viewfinder. Imagine yourself interning this summer at a small weekly newspaper in the jewel of Virginia — Rappahannock County. You could really make your mark in this...
Hey millennials (and everyone), let’s revive quality journalism
This week, the Rappahannock News (with whom we have a media agreement) reposted an article that caught my eye. In it, journalist Spencer Jakab suggests that America’s media is under threat. The culprits: Changing habits and the Internet. Few of us pick up a newspaper...
Serve your community on broadband committee
The Rappahannock Board of Supervisors has announced a search for county residents willing to volunteer for an ad hoc broadband committee. Compliments to County Administrator Debbie Keyser for proposing the committee. Citizens interested in serving should send a cover...
Spotlight on a rare double bill
Imagine watching the recent big-screen release of Sully, then hanging out and chatting about heroism with Capt. Chesley Sullenberger himself. Sort of a cool double feature, right? That kind of twin bill lies ahead Friday when Washington Post executive editor Martin...
Annual check-up
A goodly number of Foothills Forum folks gathered for our second annual meeting Saturday at the only-in-Rappahannock County home of our super treasurer, Mary Frances leMat (and her husband, Chief Harold Beebout; thanks, MF and H!). The turnout was rewarding with many...
Fourth (Estate) Friday Gathering Brings Large Crowd
At 9 a.m. last Friday morning, Foothills Forum and Rapp News were joined by 30+ Rappahannock friends and neighbors for a special addition of the Fourth (Estate) Friday coffee hour. It was standing room only as the subject drew twice the normal crowd (not...
Unplugged Intern Experiences
Guest blog post from Foothills Forum intern, Julia Fair, at her midway point. At school, If I’m late to an interview, it’s usually because my professor kept us in our seats late. In Rappahannock County, it was because a cow was in the middle of the road. In the cow's...
Welcome to Rappahannock, Julia!
Foothills Forum welcomed our (first annual) summer intern on Memorial Day weekend. Julia Fair joins us from Athens, Ohio where she’s entering her third year at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Julia came to Rappahannock by way of Bev Jones and...
Civil words from the Editor
Our long-serving editor of the Rappahannock News is back (that's old news now). What's fresh is Roger Piantadosi's debut signed editorial, "Aiming at the truth vs each other." Anyways, of course, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. But I'm here to say that...
Welcoming new players in the Rapp news universe
Some of you may recall an earlier post describing Rappahannock County as a "news desert" (see Why Local News Matters from down below). Well, things change, often for the better. Apart from what Foothills Forum has done recently via its agreement with Rappahannock...
