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Rappahannock News, March 11, 2010
"In last week’s Rappahannock News, Mike Massie suggested conservation easements could bring an end to farming and hunting in Rappahannock [March 4, What’s conserved, and what’s not guaranteed, by easements]. The article raised some interesting points, but there are many benefits of conservation easements that were not mentioned and I would like to point out some of those to our county’s farmers and to all readers of the Rappahannock News."
Rappahannock News, March 17, 2010
"I don’t know what prompted Mike Massie’s op-ed diatribe about conservation easements in your March 4 issue. But I do know that I wish you had chosen to run a parallel piece from a different point of view. Perhaps this letter will help.
My wife and I are easement donors. I have given serious thought to easement issues over the last 50 years.
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Rappahannock News, March 11, 2010
"Gentlemen (and ladies), start your plumbers.
If this week’s initial state-required five-day test goes well, and it doesn’t seriously snow or flood in the interim, the Town of Washington’s $4 million wastewater collection and treatment system could be up and running by early April. That was the news from the Washington Town Council’s regular meeting Monday night.
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Rappahannock News, March 4, 2010
"The county’s Virginia Cooperative Extension office and associated 4H programs may have to leave town – though they won’t if the county and Rappahannock’s state delegate have their way in the coming weeks of Richmond-based budget wrangling and the local wangling that follows."
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Rappahannock News, March 4, 2010
"The county’s Virginia Cooperative Extension office and associated 4H programs may have to leave town – though they won’t if the county and Rappahannock’s state delegate have their way in the coming weeks of Richmond-based budget wrangling and the local wangling that follows."
Piedmont View , December 22, 2009
"New incentives make it free for farmers to fence livestock away from streams-helping to restore water quality in the Hazel, Hughes, Rush and Thornton Rivers. Mike Beniek, who raises cattle, chickens, pigs, turkeys and vegetables at Belle Meade Farm in Rappahannock says that the main reason he decided to fence his livestock away from the farm’s four streams is that it’s the "right thing to do."
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Rappahannock News, September 17, 2009
" Mike Biniek says his years living and working in Rappahannock County have been “the best, the happiest years of my life. Now I want to give something back.”
Biniek, 57, is talking about what prompted his decision several months back to run for the Board of Supervisors seat to be given up this fall by Piedmont District Supervisor Eddie Wayland."
Rappahannock News, September 9, 2009
"Rappahannock County’s largest landholder is considering selling off 2,000 acres.
This comes at a time when real estate listings and sales are up significantly over last year, while median prices have dropped, according to an industry analysis.
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Rappahannock News, August 27, 2009
"Two new parcels of land have been put into conservation easement in Rappahannock County – one at the foot of Long Mountain, the other in F.T. Valley – bringing the total acreage protected by conservation easement in the county to 27,739 or 20.4 percent of all land in the county."
Rappahannock News, August 26, 2009
"Two properties were rezoned by the Washington Town Council at last Wednesday’s meeting essentially adding them to the ongoing sewer construction project.
The property owned by the Child Care and Learning Center on Mt. Salem Avenue and council member Alice Butler’s property off Harris Hollow Road were both rezoned from rural residential to village residential.
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Rappahannock News, August 5, 2009
"Long before “eating local” became trendy, the annual “Taste of Rappahannock” showcased the county’s local bounty at a delicious dinner and social event held to benefit the county’s public school children.
Celebrating its 12th year, the “Taste of Rappahannock” is being held Saturday, Sept. 12 at historic Belle Meade School along scenic Route 231 outside Sperryville.
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Washington Post, July 23, 2009
"Twice a month, Laurie Smith and Mark Reinhardt load their refrigerated cargo van with stew beef and steaks, chickens and eggs, honey and salsa. All of it is produced by their Rappahannock and Culpeper County neighbors, and on this particular day all of it is headed to Northern Virginia, where customers who have placed online orders await the van’s arrival at one of six scheduled drop-off points. "
Rappahannock News, July 15, 2009
"It’s a tradition with deep roots in the county, roots that have sustained its citizens for years. The tradition of agriculture, of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock that has been passed down for generations. So has the tradition of gathering up those goods and heading to market, or in this day and age, the annual county fair.
Locally, the Culpeper-Madison-Rappahannock Farm Show is a place for farmers to show off their work.
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Rappahannock News, July 9, 2009
"Dominion Virginia Power officials announced at Monday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting that they will begin in September to clear the right-of-way for the new power line through the county.
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