Grigsby Dodson of Sperryville stood tearfully before Rappahannock County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker on Monday (May 14), as he rejected the plea agreement the commonwealth and her defense had worked out, giving her a week to decide whether to pursue the case with him or start over...

The town of Washington plans to purchase one of the county's most develop-able commercial real estate tracts and, if all goes right, never develop it — except as a showcase of conservation.

Although, in just over a month, three full-scale operas will need to be almost-simultaneously rehearsed in the shed that houses his desk, in the Festival Tent next door and the nearby Theatre House, Castleton Festival production chief John D. Harris is calm, cheerful even.

Miss Rappahannock, Relay for Life and more this weekend; Pennsylvania bluegrass at the Theatre; how to learn more about Future Farming and invasive plants; another mural shaped in Flint Hill and shipped out; "students" return to Scrabble; a Father's Day folk date.

The lower ponds are now coming alive with frog calls and the upper pond is now black with squiggling tadpoles. And those aren’t the only evidence of spring's wildlife reproduction cycle being well underway.

Virginia treats marijuana possession more harshly than many other states, handing down years-long prison sentences to people arrested with small amounts of the substance; legislators in Richmond this year showed no interest in changing those laws.

Trucks should not be in Sperryville while the U.S. 211 bridge is being rebuilt. How you and your camera/phone can help stamp out commercial truck-driver illiteracy and make the village, and its guardrails, safe again.

Until VDOT began building its replacement last week, the Sperryville bridge was a brave little bridge. Day and night, for 82 years, it helped vehicles cross the south branch of the Thornton River at Sperryville.