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LAST Thursday was Herbert Foster’s last day as a member of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors. After his succesor, young W.G. Eastham, was installed, Foster ended twenty years of service with two suggestions for the new board members to consider.
The first was “to get a good look at these subdivisions” that are spreading through the county. “We’ve seen what can happen when these speculators and land grabbers come in here.” Foster made no specific suggestions as to what the Supervisors should do about the “landgrabbers.” He just made it clear that it is a problem and that it concerns him.
Foster is referred to among his fellow Supervisors as their “watchdog of the treasury,” but for his swan song he made a somewhat surprising plea for them to spend more money. “In the twenty years I’ve been on this Board, the Supervisors only got one raise, from $300 to $400. When people from other places ask me what we get I'm embarrased to tell
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