Kevin Allen

Named 441 times. These are the 400 blocks the name was read from (the first 400 kept), in the order the paper printed them.

Jun 7, 2007 BROKEN RECORD: Irving Smith's name will soon be displayed ...gymnasium among the other record-breaking athletes in school history. Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen
Jun 14, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer For residents By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer For residents of Slate Mills in the southern end of Rappahannock County, a dial tone is nothing to take for granted. Business owners and residents in the area are becoming exasperated with unreliable...
Jun 14, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Parents in By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Parents in Rappahannock County this fall will have another schooling option for their children when the Belle Meade Farm School opens to students in grades seven through 10. The school is both a...
Jun 14, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen SCHOOL’S IN: From left, teachers Greg Garrison, Brandy Hall, Teresa Boardwine and Lyt Wood prepare for next foil with Belle Meade owners Mike Biniek and Susan Hoffman. Boardwine said the farm school is an ideal...
Jun 14, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The story By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The story of the Civil War is often told in third person, from the unemotional voice of a text-book author listing generals’ victories and defeats on famous battlefields at places like Manassas, Gettysburg...
Jun 14, 2007 _ Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen SITTING EMPTY: The National Park Service plans to raze the Panorama building and prepare the site near Skyline Drive and U.S. 211 for a year-round visitor center. New life for - i 1 S'- ?...
Jun 14, 2007 By Kevin Allen By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer For several years, the Panorama building near U.S. 211 and Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park has sat empty and unused. But park officials have new plans for the deteriorating structure at Thornton...
Jun 21, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen IS IT THE HAY? Waterpenny Farm’s Rachel Bynum and Erik Plaksin suspect that an herbicide sprayed on hay they use for mulch is harming some of their crops.
Jun 21, 2007 Tainted hay Tainted hay suspected cause of Waterpenny crop damage By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer As of a couple weeks ago, Rachel Bynum’s and Erik Plaksin’s crops at Waterpenny Fann seemed to be coming along according to schedule. Despite a...
Jun 21, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Residents of By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Residents of the historically black Piedmont neighborhood west of the Town of Washington are inching closer to their goal of having their properties included in the town. The Town Council unanimously adopted a...
Jun 21, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer After years By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer After years of suffering with unreliable phone service, Slate Mills residents finally seem to be getting what they want from Verizon: an attempt at a lasting solution. During the past two weeks, fed-up...
Jun 21, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Washington By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Washington Town Council continues to wade through a rising tide of water-related issues. At their monthly meeting on June 13, Town Council members listened to a proposal to upgrade the town’s water...
Jun 21, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Children throughout By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Children throughout the region are looking forward to Saturday's Soap Box Derby of Culpeper. Boys and girls from Culpeper, southern Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock comities are eligible to participate in the derby,...
Jun 21, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Kevin Allen Joel Bacot Doug Grover Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Kevin Allen Joel Bacot Doug Grover ground and are powered by gravity, reaching speeds of 30 to 40 miles per hour as they race downhill. The fifth annual Culpeper event will host 117 cars at Yowell Meadow...
Jun 28, 2007 By Kevin Allen By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News StaffWiiter The long haul is over. After months of haggling, hearing requests for funding and making tough public decisions, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors has approved the county's budget for fiscal 2008. On Monday,...
Jun 28, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Greg Williams By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Greg Williams went before the Rappahannock County Hanning Commission on June 20 to apply for a special-exception permit to operate a contractor's yard on his agriculturally zoned lot on Ben Venue Road near...
Jun 28, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Rappahannock By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Rappahannock County Planning Commission took a second look last week at a zoning amendment to allow auto sales along U.S. 211 west of Sperryville. The measure will allow the activity in the...
Jun 28, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Paul Stevenson By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Paul Stevenson is continuing to mull over the idea of converting his Sperryville Antique Market building into a condominium development. Stevenson submitted the tentative idea to the County Planning Commission for discussion at...
Jun 28, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock Ne#s Staff Writer A new By Kevin Allen Rappahannock Ne#s Staff Writer A new state committee is hoping to develop a strategy that will bring broadband Internet access to every Virginia business. On June 13, Gov. Tim Kaine announced the formation of a Broadband Roundtable...
Jun 28, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Kevin Allen THICK SKIN: Trista Scheueriein, Rappahannock Nature Camp’s assistant director, •and 9-year-old Haze Packwood examine the skin of a cottonmouth snake.
Jul 5, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer If you By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer If you can’t ban it, regulate it. That’s the attitude Rappahannock County officials and many residents have had toward sewage sludge since two farmers applied for permits to spread the low-cost fertilizer on...
Jul 5, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News StaffWriter An effort to By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News StaffWriter An effort to commemorate Rappahannock County’s role in the Civil War has been resurrected three months after it was buried by a state agency. The Virginia Department of Transportation awarded $86,000 on June 21...
Jul 5, 2007 By Kevin Allen By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Auto sales , amendment passes A new amendment to Rappahannock County’s zoning code will allow auto sales and services in the Highway Commercial Zone between Sperryville and Shenandoah National Park along U.S. 211....
Jul 12, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer. A new By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer. A new player is entering the fracas over Dominion Virginia Power’s proposal to string more 500,000-volt power lines through Culpeper, Fauquier, Prince William and Rappahannock counties. The group, called the Power-line Landowners Alliance,...
Jul 12, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen PLA DEBUT: Power-Line Landowners Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen PLA DEBUT: Power-Line Landowners Alliance Board Member Paul Farmer speaks at the first meeting of the PLA on July 3 at the Flint Hill Fire Hall. The PLA’s principal liaison with counsel, Jim Moorman, is...
Jul 12, 2007 Verizon completes Verizon completes fix for Slate Mills By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Representatives from Verizon attended the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors meeting on July 2 to apologize for telephone problems in the Slate Mills area and announce that...
Jul 12, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen FULL HELD: Thousands of Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen FULL HELD: Thousands of people turned out to tailgate and take in the fireworks on the Fourth of July at Bill Fletcher’s Thornton Hill Hounds Race Course.
Jul 12, 2007 By Kevin Allen p Rappahannock News Staff Writer At By Kevin Allen p Rappahannock News Staff Writer At just 19 years of age, Rocio Loya has done something that no one else in her family has ever experienced. On the day after the Fourth of July, Rocio registered to...
Jul 12, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen REGISTERED: On July 5, Rocio Loya, right, became the first member of her family to register to vote in the United States. Rappahannock County Registrar Nancy Newlin is on the left.
Jul 12, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Parents and By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Parents and players got a sneak peak at Rappahannock County High School’s new varsity football coach on Friday. New RCHS Principal Robyn Puryear introduced Mike Williams, a 42-year-old Abingdon native, to some 40...
Jul 12, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen FRESH START: Rappahannock County Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen FRESH START: Rappahannock County High School’s new varsity football coach, Mike Williams, met with players and parents on Friday in the RCHS Auditorium.
Jul 12, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer In many By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer In many ways, the harfilet of Laurel Mills seems frozen in time. Its half-dozen or so houses are clustered around the ruins of the old mill on the Thornton River, and most structures...
Jul 12, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen NEW IDEA: Laurel Mills resident Peter Winfield wants to build studio space for artists and craftsmen on his property in Laurel Mills.
Jul 12, 2007 ■ Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen ON PARADE: Six-year-old Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen ON PARADE: Six-year-old Ethan Sumner, of Boston, dons some red, white and blue in the Fourth of July parade.
Jul 12, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen HE’S GOT SOUL: Robert Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen HE’S GOT SOUL: Robert Giasker, lead singer of Infinite Soul, entertains the crowd on July 4.
Jul 19, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen SPEEDWAY: Town Council members Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen SPEEDWAY: Town Council members and residents in Washington want something done to curb speeding in the town.
Jul 19, 2007 By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Stall Writer Speeding motorists By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Stall Writer Speeding motorists have long been a problem in the Town of Washington. The speed limit on the town’s roads is 25 miles per hour, but that rule is often broken, especially by drivers...
Jul 19, 2007 Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen STANDING IDLE: The Rappahannock Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Kevin Allen STANDING IDLE: The Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Office purchased a machine that measures and displays drivers’ speeds, but it is not being used.
Jul 19, 2007 rj***** By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Some rj***** By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer Some familiar faces are returning to Main Street in Sperryville. In early July, Realtors Martin and Cheri Woodard opened a new real estate office m the Thornton River House. The couple left...
Jul 19, 2007 w HI Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Kevin Allen OPEN ON HI Rappahannock News Staff Photos/Kevin Allen OPEN ON MAIN: Martin and Cheri Woodard have opened a new realty office on Main Street in Sperryville.