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RAPPAHANNOCK is not the only small county to raise objections to programs mandated from on high, but it certainly is the most vocal county right now around these parts.
Supervisors in Rappahannock complained bitterly when the Federal government forced a changeover to the Food Stamp program; they liked the surplus food commodity program better. They have expressed strong reservations about new State-mandated welfare and mental health care programs.
All has been to no avail, but they’re still objecting to State and Federal directions that they must do this or that. Their latest objections concern new State requirements that every county hire a building inspector, and that every county establish a kindergarten system. Both subjects came up at their July 3 meeting.
First, it was the building inspector. At their June meeting, the Supervisors had named Fan
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