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By BILL WALSH
Rappahannock News Special Writer
The “Fjriends of Dick McNear” held a public reception for the retired deputy county administrator for planning late last week, and if everyone who attended signed the .guest book, that tome could be published as a Who’s Who for Warrenton and Fauquier County.
McNear announced his retirement last summer, with an effective date of last Dec. 1, but he is continuing to work for the county as a consultant on the Comprehensive Plan, which is currently undergoing a mandated five-year review.
After 20 years of service to the county, including the development of the Comprehensive Plan, McNear was feted by past and present supervisors, planning commissioners, staffers, town officials, members of nearly all of Fauquier’s citizen groups, and officials from surrounding counties, among others who crowded into the John Barton Payne building. _ Supervisors’ chairman Georgia Herbert told McNear that, “it’s hard
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