Rappahannock County News

For the 17th consecutive year, The Jefferson Hotel has won AAA's prestigious Five Diamond Award, the travel group's top rating for hotels and restaurants.

One of the Piedmont's world-renowned fine dining chefs heads to the horse races this weekend to rate down-home fare that's oft times served from the back of a pickup truck.

Rappahannock County Commonwealth's Attorney Peter H. Luke hopes residents can rest easier knowing that the chances of convicted murderer Ira Wayne Cloniger ever getting out of prison are slim.

Karaoke tonight at 6 featuring Perry Hoisington at Pelham's Pub at The Inn at Kelly's Ford, 16589 Edwards Shop Ford, Remington; no cover; call 399-1779. David Gilmore at Pelham's Pub at The Inn at Kelly's Ford, 16589 Edward's Shop Road, Remington, Friday from 6 to 10 p.m.; no cover; call 399-1779. Salem Pickin' Party Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the ...

The Shenandoah Valley is known for its wonderful apples - and apple recipes. Did you know that Virginia ranks sixth among the nation's apple producing states.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board on Thursday advanced 120 stimulus projects through eight construction contracts at its monthly meeting in Richmond.

Kelly Clement, of Flint Hill, hugs her dog, Jack, on her front porch swing. Clement survived a heart attack brought on by a congenital anomaly, which almost ended her life.

It's a truism that conductors and orchestras have very individual relationships: A conductor who doesn't shine with one orchestra may prove to excel with another. That adage was certainly borne out by the National Symphony Orchestra on Thursday night under Lorin Maazel.

In the past, I have often been critical of Maazel's clinically precise, micromanaged approach, which often, to my ear, reduced his concerts with the New York Philharmonic to mere superficiality. But a brilliant technician like Maazel is just what the NSO needs. Here's the headline about Thursday's concert: The orchestra played together, and who cares, for once, about everything else. Reveling during the opening piece, Mussorgsky's 'Night on Bald Mountain,' in the crisp entrances, the taut pauses, and the sense of ensemble, all so rare from these players, and yet clearly within their reach, I was happy to worship Maazel as a god.

After being chastised for linking the name of a Northern Shenandoah Valley treasure to the controversial regional jail, the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to change the name of the lockup.

With slightly less than a month until election day, Delegate Todd Gilbert and Democratic challenger John Lesinski share two things: optimism about their chances and a commitment to improving and expanding their constituents' job opportunities.

The Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors approved creation of a controversial regional jail authority and an accompanying service agreement Tuesday night.

Rappahannock County wants to put a new, taller emergency-communications antenna up next to the Sheriff's Office, on the Carrigan property, and has applied for a special use permit from the Town of Washington to do so.

At a glance What: Rappahannock Farm Tour When: Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept.

Catch the 'Fresh' documentary and more this Saturday and Sunday at the Rappahannock County Farm Tour Weekend.

Colonial patriotism saturated the historic Culpeper Masonic Cemetery on a humid Tuesday morning as more than three-dozen assembled to honor two "Real Daughters" of the American Revolution.

Part 4 in a series - Shedding some light Regarding the Regional Jail decision that each Shenandoah County Supervisor is scheduled to vote on this Tuesday, Sept.

After a sharp verbal exchange between the two at last Wednesday's Board of Supervisors afternoon meeting over the school system's plans to replace the Rappahannock County Elementary School roof, school superintendent Bob Chappell and Jackson District Supervisor Ron Frazier exchanged letters.

B&B owner runs for supervisor Mike Biniek says his years living and working in Rappahannock County have been "the best, the happiest years of my life.

The Democratic candidate for the 15th District seat in the House of Delegates laid out his plan to save $7 billion in Interstate 81 improvements during a rally Wednesday night.

The Warren County Planning Commission has endorsed a proposed revision to the zoning ordinance that could be vital to building a regional jail with Shenandoah and Rappahannock counties.