Archive for June, 2007
Cheri and Martin Woodard form new real estate firm in Sperryville
By James P. Gannon
Sperryville is about to get a new real estate firm, but the faces and identities of the owners are very familiar to those in the village. Cheri and Martin Woodard, who have a long history of operating businesses in Sperryville, are starting their fourth business and returning to the village that was […]
New Alliance To Defeat Powerline Formed
By Paul Farmer
Power-line Landowners Alliance (PLA) has been created with the defeat of Dominion Power line as its goalA grass-roots coalition of landowners and non-profits in four counties has stood up a new organization determined to prevent Dominion Resources, Inc. from building a monstrous, new, industrial, 500-kV electric transmission line through western […]
Is this heaven? No, it’s Rappahannock: One woman’s tribute to the fields of her dreams
By Chris Doxzen
Moving here to Rappahannock County was one of the best decisions I think I’ve ever made, and I believe I can say without hesitation that for so many of us, Rappahannock is a sanctuary, a haven from the outside world.
You can feel the tension visibly disappear coming over those rolling […]
Oh, yuck! Supervisors will consider new rules regulating land application of sewage sludge at July meeting
By James P. Gannon
Rappahannock County’s Board of Supervisors soon will take up the unsavory and sometimes controversial subject of regulating the use of sludge, the sewage-plant byproduct used as farm fertilizer, which for years has been banned in the county.
Rappahannock still has a ban on sludge in place, but because Virginia court rulings have struck […]
Mello leaving Rappahannock for Culpeper post
Roger Mello who served as principal of Rappahannock County high school since the summer of 2002 and recently stepped down as principal to become assistant principal will instead be leaving the Rappahannock school system this summer to become the “planning principal” for Culpeper’s new Eastern View High School. This school is under construction near the […]
Supervisors approve new budget
By 3-1 votes Monday evening June 25 with Jackson District representative Ron Frazier voting “no” and Wakefield District supervisor Roger Welch away on a trip, the county supervisors approved a nearly $20.3 million budget the the fiscal year that begins July 1. Mr. Frazier actually made the motion to adopt the budget and then voted […]