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hole, widening and deepening it further.
Mr. Askew said that he hopes the lack of a real deep freeze so far this winter will mean the spring damage will be relatively minor. He reported that he had just come off some gravel-surfaced secondary roads in Fauquier County, and “for mid-February, those roads are in excellent condition.”
The resident engineer’s optimism
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