As we come to the final weeks of Culpeper County having one high school and 2008 graduates making their final preparations for the big day and parties and the summer ahead, there are many perceptions circulating of what this change will bring in our lives.

Porches, not to be confused with decks or a patio connected to the house, are often considered the quintessential icon of Southern culture depicted in residential architecture.

Terrible clichés aside, the world has seen some devastating weather in recent months.

Breathtaking Alaska a whole new world

Gillian Holliday, 34, begins a new monthly Culpeper News column today.

Let’s get right to this week’s questions. Q: What can I do to make the most of a trip to the veterinarian?

One of the lesser known grapes that I have come to enjoy is Tannat.

Here at the Piedmont Volunteer Center, connecting organizations with volunteers is our mission.

Farmer’s Market continues to grow in former downtrodden area.

ALASKA! Everything’s bigger up there. Forget Texas.

With summer around the corner and, gas prices rising sometimes twice in a day, a family vacation might not be on the list of things to do.

The original question was, “Can one advocate for the preservation of what was and be a progressive thinker?” It is time now to answer that reoccurring conundrum or at least give it a hearty effort.

Even in the swankiest of settings, there will always be someone without class.

In my never ending quest to find something vaguely related to the equine world to write about each week, I tend to travel far and wide to find something I can make a story out of.

Over the past 23 years, it has been my privilege to conduct hundreds of tours of Civil War sites in Culpeper County for thousands of visitors from all over our country — as well as intrepid folks hailing from foreign shores.

During the past few weeks, you have indulged me while I dissected the basic tenets of “history;” breaking the subject into three parts.

Being that Washington, D.C. is one of the world’s cultural and historical hotspots, it comes as no surprise that the city is an ideal spot for a museum devoted to news.

Being that Washington, D.C. is one of the world’s cultural and historical hotspots, it comes as no surprise that the city is an ideal spot for a museum devoted to news.

Well this is it. AP exams are finishing and graduation is only one month away.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how good we have it.

One of the most popular requests for Ireland is the self-drive program.

On the weekend of April 11-13, we had our very successful second annual Ms. Wheelchair Virginia Program at WWRC

A few weeks ago I met up with some Army recruiters to talk to college students about opportunities in the military.

I spent this past weekend completely immersed in a tale of the American Civil War, the Battle of the Wilderness to be specific.

This island paradise, in the Gulf Stream, is the northern most coral reef in the Atlantic Ocean with a nautical history spanning more than 500 years.

“You look like you already have skin cancer,” my friend told me Sunday.

This line of work gets dirty. It’s not all sitting behind a desk.

The first thing you notice is the natural light. It floods down halls from huge exterior windows. It streams down from skylights. It washes into classrooms from both exterior and interior portals.

Several times this column has discussed the importance of regular laboratory screenings as part of routine physical examinations. This past week, three patients in my practice were dramatic reminders of the incredible benefit of routine blood testing.

Let me say first, that I am not an apologist for Culpeper County Public Schools although, to be completely transparent, my wife does work at the central office.