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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Ncwa Staff Writer
Supervisors Hubert Gilkey and Charles Estes and the board’s administrative assistant John McCarthy went hunting in Richmond last Friday for solutions to Rappahannock’s landfill dilemma but they came back to the county emptyhanded.
It was a private hunt. The Rappahannock News reporter who sought entrance to the offices of the Division of Waste Management was turned away. “With only two supervisors present, there was no requirement that it be a public meeting,” Mr. McCarthy said this Monday. “There was a general feeling that more could be accomplished if there wasn’t oversight of everything that was said and done . . . And I was afraid that details of contracts we’ve considered might be mentioned, but they weren’t, as it turned out.”
According to Mr. McCarthy, he explained “where we are now” to Cynthia Bailey and Henry Gregori of the Division of Waste Management.
Consultant Leonard Joyce, who joined the threesome in Richmond, reported on his contacts with all the neighboring localities, an unsuccessful quest for an out-of-the-county disposal site for solid waste, “either short or long term,” Mr. McCarthy said. “They wanted to know what the responses were: a flat ‘no’ or a ‘no, let’s talk money.’ He said the an
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