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Uitnen concern over the proposed trade of Shenandoah Perk property in Rappahannock County for private land in Greene County surfaced at Friday’s quarterly meeting of‘the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection.
Stanley Thompson, a land owner whose property adjoins a tract involved in the trade, asked for support from the RLEP audience that included State Delegate George Beard. In his statement, Thompson noted that negotiations for the trade had been going on for four years with the “only inklings available to the public" coming from the appearance of “one or another of the new owners on neighbor’s property in efforts to consolidate ahead of time the advantages they might expect in securing title to this Park land.”
(Park authorities initially reported that the private citizens involved in the land swap were Front Royal town attorney Eric Adamson, Rappahannock Zoning Administrator Evan McNear and Circuit Court Judge Raynor V. Snead. According to McNear, he and Snead are not parties in the transaction. Instead, said McNear, the owners of the property in Greene County are his wife, Jean McNear; Judge Snead’s wife, Lois Snead and Adamson. Land records in Greene County show Mrs. McNear, Mrs; Snead and Adamson as holding title to the tract I.
In the discussion at the RLEP meeting, Thompson acknowledged that the property in Greene County may well be a valuable addition to the Park as
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