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come from a construction fund that's already severely limited. “There is some money there but not much. We’ll just have to push construction projects back a year or so if it becomes necessary.
"There’s no question about it. The highway department’s first priority is maintenance and the first priority of maintenance is snow removal,’’ Askew emphasized. “We have to keep the roads open. They are the life lines of the state.”
Same Statewide
It isn’t just Rappahannock’s budget that’s feeling the pinch of the worst winter in decades. Askew said he'd heard two reports from Richmond: the first had the entire $19 million allocated for snow removal this winter statewide already spent and the second report had it 80 percent gone.
“It’s been a long grind. We've had 10 or 12 days of
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