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our ot nve r auquier secondary school principals told the county School Board on Monday they favor putting all county ninth graders in one school to improve athletic programs.
According to the principals’ suggestions, the ninth grade would be housed at one of two junior high schools in Warrenton and incorporated into Fauquier High School’s sports and academic programs.
The principals, who discussed a 174-page evaluation on Fauquier’s secondary athletic programs with the School Board, said they believed the athletes would get earlier and more consistent training if ninth graders were included in the senior high school sports program.
W. C. Taylor Principal Terry Arbogast said he opposes further centralization in the county which has a central high shod for 1,700 students in grades 10-12. He told the board the schools and students would lose their “community concept” if they were put in one building.
Convicted dog killer
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A Lucketts man convicted of maliciously killing two dogs lost his appeal Thursday when he was found guilty by a Loudoun Circuit Court Jury.
Stephen M. Lamm, 26, noted to the court that he will consider appealing the misdemeanor case to the Virginia Court of Appeals, (a newly formed level of court between the circuit court and Virginia Supreme Court), according to his lawyer J. Paul McDonald. The court permits a defendant 30 days to file an appeal.
The Loudoun Circuit Court jury sentenced Lamm to serve 30 days in the county jail and $1,500 in fines.
That jail sentence was less than the one he received March 1 when
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