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Two lanes of progress
opened through Rappahannock County as the highway department completed what is now the northbound lanes of U.S. 211 as a Washington bypass.
Work continues on the other two lanes of the bypass and all through traffic is currently using it.
The county’s supervisors authorized a letter be written and sent to the state department of education concerning the inferior work and design of the local high school building which has required ext msive repairs in what they felt was much too short a time.
John Walker Jenkins resigned as deputy sheriff, a position he held for five years.
According to the students at Rappahannock County High School, the ring dance Friday night was “the most.” About 170 students attended the dance, which featured the local band, “The Gravin’ Image.”
A Clint Eastwood double feature, “Hang ’em High,” and “The Good, Bad and the Ugly” played at the Hillsdale Drive-in at Massies Comer.
Highway department engineer James K. Skeens discussed the proposed project to replace a steel truss span across the Thorton River Laurel Mills Run with a new bridge.
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