Month: February 2015

On a recent Sunday afternoon the wind gusted across Cedar Mountain and down onto the flat fields where Bernie Feaganes fiddled with last minute adjustments to his plane. Then, when Feaganes judged the wind acceptable, […]

Investigators have identified the man and woman found dead of apparent gunshot wounds at Mountain Run Lake Park late yesterday afternoon as Amber Lynn Martin, 21, of Madison and Johnny Bynum, 30, of Smyrna, Delaware. […]

It’s All Local – Brian & Janet Stoppee of M2 Media Studios from Virginia Living Television.

The Culpeper Police Department and Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office are conducting a joint death investigation at the town-owned Mountain Run Lake Park. At about 5:35 p.m., two adults, one male and one female, were found […]

CULPEPER â?? The Virginia Department of Transportation cautions motorists that a fast-moving snowstorm will affect travel in central Virginia during the afternoon commute. Snow squalls are expected to quickly cover roads, reduce visibility and make […]

Editorâ??s Note: From now until the Culpeper Relay for Life event in May, we will be sharing stories of some of those involved and why they are involved in this nationwide effort to end cancer. […]

The Museum of Culpeper History reopened to the public Sunday, with new exhibits marking major historical events â?? the end of the Civil War and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation following World War II. […]

These property transfers for January 2015 were provided by the Culpeper County Assessor’s Office. Appreciation is extended to W. Jason Kilby and his staff. The printing of this list is made possible by Re/Max Crossroads […]

Those drivers who travel between the Main Street Circle and the Old Rixeyville Road Circle may notice an entrance to nowhere behind Wendyâ??s. The concrete curbing gaps for a road that does not exist, marked […]

Editorâ??s note: Throughout the local high school sports season, Culpeper Times will recognize an â??Athlete of the Weekâ? from one of the sports. This week we are featuring basketball. At the end of the year, […]

During the fourth quarter of 2014, the median sales price for all property types sold in the Greater Piedmont Area real estate market saw a 4.8 percent year-over-year increase, rising to $260,000 from the Q4 […]

Millennials deep down may be suburbanites after all. In recent years, economists and demographers have argued that members of Generation Y will have a longer love for city living in smaller living quarter than their […]

Itâ??s not that I was unaware of the fact realtors have a hard job â?? after all, I dragged my own realtor around for months, six months to be precise, before finding exactly what I […]

It all started more than 60 years ago with a father and an idea. Don Murphy had a son in Cub Scouts in 1953. His son was too young to participate in the popular Soap […]

Send your items with contact information to Anita Sherman at anita@culpepertimes.com The Culpeper Downtown Farmers Market is currently accepting applications for the 2015 market season. The market season begins Saturday, April 25 and continues through […]

Last week was another busy, but productive week at the Virginia General Assembly. Our sessions in Richmond, especially during odd years, are among the shortest legislative sessions in the nation. We face similar challenges to […]

Bullying? When I was a kid I was bullied. Not â??cyberbulliedâ? but old school intimidation. I got beat up, more than a few times, most of the time for no real reason other than I […]

Our most conventional concepts of love mirror the ones C.S. Lewis wrote about in his book the Four Loves. In his popular study, Lewis divided love into four formsâ??Affection, Friendship, Eros (romantic love), and Charity. […]

The call came early on Ground Hogâ??s Day. It wasnâ??t to tell me that Punxsutawney Phil had seen his shadow and weâ??d have six more weeks of winter. It was from our son Douglas telling […]

No matter which wrestling team fans supported at the Conference 27 championship last Friday night in Manassas Park, they all had at least one winner in their corner. Brentsville District emerged as the overall victor, […]