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Karen Rypka
Reports From
Richmond
Veteran state government reporter Karen Timmons Rypka has been assigned to cover political and legislative topics in Richmond for The Rappahannock News.
Rypka, 28. covered the 1978 General Assembly for the Alexandria Gazette. She worked for the Richmond bureau of United Press International in 1976-77.
Rypka is the second fulltime staffer to cover Richmond for The Rappahannock News and other newspapers in the Arundel Newspaper Group.
Jim Pope, managing editor of The Loudoun TimesMirror, covered the 1978 General Assembly.
Rypka is a former resident of Leesburg where she worked for the Metro Virginia News from 1972-74.
She has been involved in newspaper work since 1976 when she was a cub reporter in her home town of Upper Arlington, Ohio.
She is the wife of Don Rypka, staff photographer of the Richmond TimesDispatch, who is also a former staff member of The Fauquier Democrat and Metro Virginia News.
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