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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Cordiality, common sense and modest proposals from the judges marked their meeting Tuesday night with the Rappahannock supervisors to discuss problems with the courthouse.
Present at the meeting were judges Burke Hertz, Thomas Horne, John Alexander, Shore Robertson and Carlton Penn. Supervisors Charles Estes, Dick Latham, Hubert Gilkey and H. B. Wood joined them in what Latham characterized as a round-table discussion.
“We’re not unaware of the tremendous / burden you’re bearing in ‘the jail renovation,” Penn began. “We also realize that there are only so many people in Rappahannock to tax. In a place like Fairfax, you can get in more people’s pockets, but not here. So this is not the notion of a judge who wants to spend a lot of your money.”
Penn added that, while he didn’t come to Rappahannock often, he had tried the Gregory case in the courtroom and the added public interest placed a burden on Rappahannock court facilities.
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