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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The courtroom was packed Friday evening with citizens opposed to the proposed new Rappahannock Electric Cooperative transmission line from Sperryville to Rixeyville.
Meeting organizers Linda Terry and "Hal Creel urged audience members to write letters opposing the line to the judges on the State Corporation Commission, officers in REC and Potomac Edison, the county’s representatives in the General Assembly, and even members of Congress.
Mrs. Terry said she and her husband had moved to Rappahannock because of the natural beauty. “A lot of people feel like we do,” she said. “We don’t think the power line belongs in Rappahannock County... The main reason we are upset is the beauty we will lose. The power will not benefit Rappahannock much at all. The power line destroys property values, not just where it crosses, but when it is in view.”
She read from a letter from Beverly Atkins, Commissioner of Revenue, stating that 25-acre lots without power lines across them sell for $3,500 to $5,000 per acre, w’hile ones with power lines sell for $2,500 to $3,000 per acre. Ms. Atkins’s letter also said properties crossed by
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