by Kristin Davis | Sep 14, 2026 | Environment, People, Sidebar, Top Story
‘When there’s a call from the wild … you have to answer it’ In a single hour on a midsummer Monday, five new patients arrive at the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center: a crow, a hawk and three baby rabbits plucked from the clutches of a cat. It’s high season at one of...
by Meredith Ogilvie-Thompson | Sep 14, 2026 | Broadband, Local servcies, Sidebar, Top Story
Just 8 Rapp homes connected after 4 years Will it meet Dec. 31 deadline? Four years and $45.5 million into a nearly $100 million state grant to bring high-speed fiber internet to eight rural Virginia counties — just eight of the 1,435 homes targeted in Rappahannock...
by Ireland Hayes, Luke Christopher | Sep 9, 2026 | Agriculture, People, Sidebar, Top Story
Thousands turned out for the fifth annual Culpeper Rodeo on last Saturday at the Culpeper Agricultural Enterprise, watching bull riders cling on for dear life until a torrential rainstorm cut the main event short. Cody Gilbert, a bull rider from Locust Dale, took the...
by Ireland Hayes | Sep 8, 2026 | County, Local Government, Sidebar, Top Story
Aims to make public this month proposed lease for new library The Rappahannock County Public Library Board of Trustees pledged last Thursday to seek public comment on a proposed lease for a new library at Rush River Commons. The lease could be finalized this month,...
by Tim Carrington | Sep 8, 2026 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
Fans bid farewell at Cooter’s Place in Luray A Dukes of Hazzard revival swept Luray on Saturday, with thousands of cars streaming in for an amplified and tearful farewell to Rappahannock resident Ben “Cooter” Jones, who died Aug. 9 at his Harris Hollow home at 84. Two...
