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By MARK SCOLFORO
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The controversy at Wakefield School in Huntly continued this week, with the school’s co-founder Pamela Lynn being sued for libel by a Warrenton attorney Tuesday afternoon and the school’s Board of Directors meeting to address the entire problem Tuesday night.
Mrs. Lynn was sued by Robert Miller in Rappahannock Circuit Court for libel. Mr. Miller is requesting $500,000 punitive damages and $500,000 compensatory damages for remarks she allegedly made about Mr. Miller during a meeting earlier this month of the Wakefield Parents’ Association (WPA).
The governing Board of Directors held a closed-door meeting Tuesday night to, among Other things, determine how to “vigorously defend its right to occupy the property” of Wakefield School, according to board chairman Lynn Hopewell of Warrenton.
As a result of the meeting “negotiations” with the Lynns will continue, said Mr. Hopewell.
“We’re going to go for another couple of days. If that’s not successful, we’ll decide what next to do,” he said Wednesday morning.
Clydetta Lynn, Pamela Lynn’s mother-in-law, has notified the board of her intention to evict the school from the six-plus acres on which it sits. Because she has signed a deed conveying the property to the board, a deed which has not been recorded, the status of that eviction is still murky.
Mr. Hopewell said this week that there is “no other viable use for the property” and the board “would like to work something out with the Lynn family. ”
Pamela Lynn, who sued the board, Mr. Miller and attorney William Bassett last month then withdrew the suit, has said she may reinstate it if a undefined mediation process does not work.
Mr. Hopewell did not hold out much hope for mediation, as the eviction date is July 1. “I can only tell you we don’t have time to mediate. We have to resolve this quickly,” he said.
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