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By LISAG. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A change is coming to Rappahannock County — a change which may affect the local economy.
Country stores with gas pumps, which often serve as the nucleus the basis for each small community, may either be faced with closing as Ben Venue Store manager Ralph Peyton was — or a costly renovation, as Richard and Esther Settle of Flint Hill can attest to.
Either way, it changes the face of the community.
Besides the local orchards, the small businesses and local governments, individual country stores employ not only the owners and their family members but Often youths in search of summer work or after-school jobs.
Found in each small community, the stores’ commerce gives support to the economic base in Rappahannock County as well as offering food stuffs, usually some hardware, often feeds, fertilizers and livestock needs and a relief to local residents and weary travelers with not just a cup of coffee but with the always necessary gas pumps.
Due to a federal law passed in 1988, part of the Superfund SARA Title III Act, underground storage tanks — tanks containing and pumping gasoline into cars, trucks and other forms of transportation — are required to be either updated to meet strict new regulations or removed.
With gasoline often the main calling card for country stores, the tough new regulations the may mean store’s demise, for the price tag
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