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Aileen Johnson said, “I agree with Bill Fletcher. Business would die with a bypass.” , t.Fletcher

said there are “radicar airrerences oetween wasningion and any of the other villages in the county. Because Washington is the county seat, it is the “focal point” of the county, with the courthouse, bank and -newspaper. He said The Inn pumps about $100,000 into the town’s tax base. He said with a bypass Sperryville could lose its post office.

Nancy McBride said the proposed bypass would not go around the village. It would go through the village, cutting part of the village off.

See Bypass, Page A-8

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