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Three cheers for our local highway department.

While residents of the greater metropolitan area are still struggling with traffic tie-ups on major roads that have only one lane cleared, folks out in rural Rappahannock can drive under almost normal conditions on little traveled country lanes.

By Tuesday afternoon here, highway department crews had plowed and replowed gravel roads that deadend on mountain tops. By Tuesday afternoon in Fairfax, Alexandria and Arlington, subdivision residents were still snowed in on streets that serve hundreds of families.

Doug By waters and his men from the maintenance shop outside Washington worked around the clock for two days and part of a third to keep Rappahannock roads open. Their efforts paid off. A representative from a school bus company was in the county Tuesday after traveling from Buena Vista by way of Winchester and Front

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