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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock’s supervisors will decide soon whether the long-delayed improvements to the county high school will proceed. As they wrestle with the question of whether to accept the $1.5 million literary loan, it is appropriate to examine what is happening in Clarke County, our closest counterpart among^Virginia’s 136 counties and cities.
Like Rappahannock, Clarke County is committed to preserving a rural agricultural economy, farmland and open space and to protecting fragile natural resources. In Clarke’s case, the resource is groundwater; in Rappahannock’s, the mountain slopes.
Like Rappahannock, Clarke has a small population — 10,000 compared to our 6,000. And most of them must go elsewhere to find work. In 1980, approximately 42 percent of the labor force here “out-commuted”; Clarne’s “out-commuters” represented 53 percent.
The per capita income of Clarke County residents was $10,858 in 1983; the following year, the per capita income for Rappahannock was $11,357.
According to , statistics for 1986. the median family income in Clarke is $28,092 and the median household income is
91.6%