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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Happahannork Staff Writer
“The picture, gentlemen, is bleak,” resident highway ^engineer Don Askew warned the Rappahannock supervisors on Monday.
“Bleak,” as Askew explained it, means a freeze on hirings, no money for secondary road construction, a secondary maintenance budget that’s already overspent and a .hold on revisions to the county’s sixyear road plan which was scheduled for review next month.
Askew reported that in a letter dated September 18, state highway commissioner Harold King ordered a freeze on all residencies in the secondary system due to shortfalls in revenue and
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