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10YEARSAGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the July 28, 1977 edition
For the first time in almost
half a century, Mary Botts Quaintance will not be greeting Rappahannock students when school opens in the fall. After 48 years in the county school system, she retired as principal of the elementary school on July 1. There aren’t many Rappahannock natives under 60 who went through public schools here without knowing Mrs. Quaintance. Since 1929, she has taught fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades plus classes in high school and has been an elementary principal.
Heavy rains over the last two weeks have brought the precipitation total for July up to the usual monthly average, according to readings taken at Miss Ruby Jenkins’ weather station in Washington. She reports that 3.98 inches of rain have fallen to date, during the month.
5 YEARSAGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the July 29, 1982 edition
J. Newbill Miller of Washington
has entered one of Ginger Hill’s prize Angus bulls in the All American Angus Futurity, which will be held in Louisville, Ky. August 1-3.
Rappahannock County can boast one of the lowest crime rates in Virginia, a rate that is declining while crime is on the increase elsewhere in the state, according to statistics released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Section of the Department of State Police. For 1981, the crime rate in Rappahannock was 11.48 per 1,000 population, a drop from the previous year’s 17.16 rate per 1,000.
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