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v*luespreaa oenei inai Luke was behind the closing apparently led voters to give the incumbent supervisor chairman only a narrow margin of victory in the November 6 local election.

Following a public hearing called by Luke to measure community opinion, the highway department indicated it would re-open the bridge after repairs bring it up to a legal load limit. Replacement of steel foundation beams and the old wooden deck with concrete parts is expected to be completed by early spring.

7. Trash Problems

The dilemma of what to do with the county’s trash continued to plague the supervisors in 1979. A dumpster site was found and then lost in Washington after the land was discovered to be private property rather than highway department right-ofway. The question of dumpster site ownership also came up in Amissville with the supervisors being billed repeatedly by a local property owner for use of land the. supervisors again thought was mate right-of-way.

Citizens complained repeatedly about conditions at the dumpster sites, particularly Amissville, presenting the supervisors with a petition calling for relocation of the green trash boxes further from town.

Although the board announced in November that a new site for the Amissville dumpsters as well as a spot for trash disposal near Washington had been found, the end of 1979 saw the refuse containers still sitting alongside Route 211 surrounded by Little mountains of litter.

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