18 years after starting at Liberty High as a special education teacher and freshman football coach, Otis Jones has become the fourth activities director in Liberty history, and the first African American activities director in County history.
Kettle Run (14-0) became the first team from Fauquier County to make a VHSL state championship game. They’ll face off against perennial power Dinwiddie County (14-0) in the state final next Saturday, Dec. 10 at 4:30 at Liberty University in Lynchburg.
Salvador De La Iglesia, of Bealeton, last saw his son, Derek De La Iglesia, Monday evening. The younger De La Iglesia, 21, had that day moved into a townhouse in Marshall.
The following day, Derek De La Iglesia was killed in a parking lot in Warrenton.
Superintendent of Schools David Jeck feels the time is ripe to address the issue. “I would like to make a very aggressive attempt for our employees. … This is the year to do it.”
Kettle Run’s thrilling 35-34 win over Loudoun County in the Class 4 Region C championship game will surely go down as one of the greatest performances in the school’s sports history.
The Fauquier County School Board voted Thursday night to make face masks optional in school for students and for all staff. Contract tracing will no longer be carried out either.
BREAKING: Warrenton native Blake Corum was selected 83rd overall in the third round of the
#NFLDraft
by the Los Angeles Rams.
Corum is only the second player from Fauquier County to head to the NFL.
Fauquier County supervisors and school board members have agreed on a compensation package that will give school employees a 5% raise for the 2021-2022 school year.
🏈 Colton Quaker and the Kettle Run Cougars are on their way to the Class 4 Region C championship game after beating Millbrook at home Friday night.
📷 Photos of the game —>
With the possibility of collegiate softball on her horizon, standout center fielder Isabelle Cavins decided to give winter track a try her freshman year at Liberty High, not knowing it would become her sport of destiny.
Congrats to all graduating high school seniors! 👨🎓 🧑🎓
Check out pages 14-17 in today’s paper for
@LHSEAGLESVA
class photos — and Keely Crane’s last
@LibertyPublicat
column.
@fauquierhs
class photos are on pages 20-23 and include a note from Principal Kelican.
The Kettle Run High girls lacrosse team is going to states!
Emilie Muma scored the game-winning goal with six minutes, 37 seconds remaining as the Cougars nosed past James Monroe 5-4 in the semifinals of the Region 4B girls lacrosse tournament.
Kettle Run used two small sticks of dynamite in the form of brothers Jacob and J.J. Mulhern to blow up Handley’s long shot dreams of winning this week’s Northwestern District baseball championship.
🐂 Sammy Leach, a senior at
@LHSEAGLESVA
, took home top honors with two steers he bred and raised. Meredith Day, a sophomore at Liberty, received the Herdsman award. 🐖
Highland School wins its first state baseball championship. Coach Micah Higgins said, "We’re gonna enjoy this one for a while. This group is special. It’s a well-oiled machine that does things the right way.”
The Cougars will travel to Leesburg to face Loudoun County (12-0), which eliminated Sherando 49-28 in the other region semi. The game is next Saturday, Nov. 26, at 1 p.m.
While there were uncertainties on both sidelines entering Friday’s season opening football showdown between Kettle Run and Liberty, Cougars’ quarterback Jake Mulhern proved he wasn’t one of them.
Big performances by:
-Fauquier's Blaze O’Saben (grand slam & 3-run homer!), Clay Goff, Sarah Lamper & Meghan Harrigton (combined to strike out 17 of 20 batters!).
-Kettle Run's Bailey Burke & Joe Vogatsky...
"For Liberty High’s Tre’Von White that superhuman feat of versatility was within his grasp this spring. A football-basketball phenom who never played high school baseball, the senior was set to start in center field, until the pandemic ..."
“I’m almost speechless – and that’s pretty rare,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as she looked over packed room in Warrenton Friday during an event supporting Denver Riggleman, the GOP nominee in the 5th District.
The Fauquier County School Board and Board of Supervisors agreed to a funding compromise Thursday that will result in average teacher salary raises of 7 percent next year, bringing their pay closer to that of surrounding school divisions.
Kettle Run basketball head coach Demond Tapscott envisions a world where high school basketball in Fauquier County is just as competitive as the rest of Northern Virginia.
The Today Show stopped in Old Town Warrenton this morning to talk about today's winter storm, which is part of a swath of stormy weather across the country.
🏈 Sam Rodgers and
@KettleRunFB
won decisively against Heritage Thursday night to advance to next week's Region 4C semifinal at home against Millbrook.
📷 Photos from the game —>
"He has inspired both male and female athletes to enjoy and excel at the game he has so much passion for. Wayne will be missed at
@fauquierhs
and it will be difficult to fill his shoes.” 🏀
🥍 Fauquier defeated Meridian 21-10 last night for the boys lacrosse Region 4B championship, sending them to the state quarterfinal with home field advantage. They will play either June 3 or 4 — the date/time hasn't been finalized.
📷 Photos —>
After a 1-0 win last night,
@FHSSoftball2019
is headed to regionals with a perfect record.
Check out coverage of Fauquier High School’s undefeated softball team on page 19 of today’s print edition.
Liberty High’s Isabelle Cavins always dreamed of playing college softball at her dream school, the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
If you told her two years ago that she would be going there to run track, she wouldn’t have believed you.
Punishing junior tailback Colton Quaker is the returning face of a Kettle Run dynasty that's out to win its fourth straight Northwestern District title.
"I kept staring at the results in complete shock."
Former
@KettleRunNews
sprinter Adalia Coleman takes third in 100, 200 meters at NCAA D-III championships
After 47 minutes and 53 seconds of hard-fought football, the back-and-forth clash between undefeated powerhouses Kettle Run and Millbrook came down to the final play of the game.
An upbeat, tongue-in-cheek video posted to YouTube on Wednesday reminds students of the requirement to wear masks inside Fauquier High School and other policies meant to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Gov.-elect Glenn Younkin (R) has nominated Fauquier County Sheriff Bob Mosier to be Virginia’s next secretary of public safety and homeland security. Mosier, a Republican who campaigned on Youngkin’s behalf, was first elected sheriff in 2015.
Dozens of Steven Michael Kendall’s friends, relatives and classmates gathered at Liberty High School’s baseball field Sunday night to hold a vigil for the 19-year-old who died in a car crash Friday.
One week after edging Millbrook 28-24 in their closest game of the season, the Kettle Run Cougars were back on cruise control, blowing out Meridian 61-6 last Friday in Falls Church.
“He's a bull. He's probably been one of our strongest kids since he was in the 8th grade,” Kettle Run coach Charlie Porterfield said of the Cougars’ superstar tailback Colton Quaker following their 41-7 victory over Sherando on Friday.
🏈⚽️ Before this week, Fauquier High School soccer player Nolan Working had never played in a football game. On Thursday night, he kicked three field goals for the Falcons.
📷 More photos of the game —>
Normally,
@FCPS1News
summer school is only available to middle- and high-schoolers who need to retake a course in order to graduate. The usual number of summer school students is about 35. This year, more than 1,100 students signed up.
When Ryan Wilson-McCoy joined the Liberty track team in the spring of his sophomore year as a means of staying fit for basketball season, he never expected what was to come over the next two years.
Halfway through Kettle Run’s Class 4 Region C baseball showdown with visiting Tuscarora on May 30, there was an uneasiness in both dugouts and in the stands.
Some local parents, teachers and business owners have formed an organization to oppose the Fauquier County School Board's recent decision to commence a hybrid teaching model Nov. 9.
Hosting Skyline in their first Class 3 Northwestern District matchup of the season on Friday, Kettle Run rolled to a 56-6 victory behind a record-breaking five touchdown performance from running back Colton Quaker.
Fauquier County Public Schools will not require masks for students, staff members or visitors in any circumstances, according to a document attached to the agenda for Monday evening’s school board meeting.
Fauquier High School school security officer Sal Torelli has been in law enforcement for more than 30 years. He’s seen his share of bad stuff, but it hasn’t blinded him to the best life can offer. It’s rare not to see him beaming.
Angele Cipriotti is our latest intern at the Fauquier Times. She comes from Liberty High School via a special program in the county to encourage young people to get involved in their local governments and...
Fauquier County School Board superintendent David Jeck addresses the Red4Ed rally in Richmond yesterday in support of expanded funding for all Virginia schools, including a raise in teacher pay, more counselors in schools, improved infrastructure,...
Richard Swift, M.D. is board certified in pulmonary and critical care medicine and has a practice in Warrenton. In an oped piece, he appeals to residents to work together to get through the pandemic.
The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help to locate Wiley Steven Saville, 16, who is missing from his Warrenton home and is believed to be at-risk.
Grace Crater continually failed to produce an assist while trying to cross a ball to one of her Kettle Run teammates.
The problem was her passes kept landing in the back of the net...
The Kettle Run senior guard embraced the role of shadowing Liberty’s star player. Tapscott was so good at it, that Gutierrez, the Eagles’ scoring leader and top playmaker, was held to one point as Kettle Run won the girls basketball contest, 50-18.