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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Compiling a list of the top stories of the year is always difficult, and always involves subjective judgements which will not meet with universal agreement. There are, however, some stories which appear repeatedly throughout the year, affecting a significant portion of the county in the process.
This year was no exception. As is usually the case, the major stories involved government, but nature and its foibles managed to slip in several times as well.
1) The seemingly endless saga of the county and its landfill once again occupied a number of front pages throughout the year. The year began with the present landfill, located on Clifton Clark’s property near Woodville, near capacity and under threat of closure by the state. In late February, negotiations with a nearby county to take Rappahannock’s solid waste broke down.
By April, Robert Forman of the
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