All 35 Virginia State Parks will host special programs and events Saturday, June 8, as part of the fifth annual National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day), to encourage healthy, active outdoor fun.

If there is anything that the Democratic candidates for attorney general are certain to agree on, it is that they would be nothing like current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

The week's headlines: Board works on reducing tax rise to 4 cents || Bond revoked, murder suspect re-hospitalized || At Castleton, it’s homes away from home || The Rapp for May 23 || Rappahannock Park, ramped up and ready || Editorial: The sound you hear, the food you eat || Massie’s goal in Madison advances Lady Panthers . . . and more.

Everything The V does focuses on eclecticism, owner Anthony Cavallo says, from unique craft beers and a solid list of wines to the 100-seat patio to the posh lounge that ushers the bar vibe into a more traditional, upscale-casual dinner setting.

Falling on the last Monday of May since 1968, Memorial Day will be observed this year on May 27. During the three-day weekend communities across Loudoun County will honor soldiers, sailors and Marines who died serving their country.

Where do the talented Castleton Festival performers stay when they're not on stage? Either at one of Castleton Farm’s own properties or the permanent home of generous locals, who routinely open their guest rooms and cottages for up to six weeks to welcome in relative strangers.

Our monthly Fourth (Estate) Friday meeting, Coterie and Narmada's weekend offerings, acoustic guitarist Laurence Juber's return to the Theatre, Middle Street Gallery opens its "Beauty Around Us" exhibit and RAAC's opening casting call for all area women for "Love, Loss and What I Wore" in this week's Rapp column.

How best to describe that sound now bringing the Rappahannock hills alive? Humming? Droning? Whirring? Buzzing? Whining? It's not Congress arguing over the farm bill but the sound of something more in the natural rhythm of things: The Brood II cicadas, which emerge from their underground hermitage every 17 years to propagate.

Rappahannock County High School’s varsity girls soccer players made history in Monday night’s (May 20) Bull Run District quarterfinals match when they defeated Madison County, 1-0, in a hard-fought battle on the Mountaineers’ own field.

Virginia State Board of Education president David Foster visited Rappahannock County High School last Thursday (May 16) and was treated to a tour and presentations on the school division’s programs.