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About 26 customers of the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative from Rappahannock and Culpeper counties went to Richmond Oct. 28 to oppose the co-op’s request for a rate increase.
At the State Corporation Commission’s public hearing on the rate increase, Edie Falls of Woodville was the first to testify for the local group.
“I asked them not to grant the increase and gave suggestions on how REC could conserve the co-op members’ money,” she said. She added that she was very nervous and spoke very fast and that the court reporter
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