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said he loves the county and the people who live here. A Rappahannock native, whose family has lived in the county “since even before there was a Rappahannock County,” Estes grew up on the narrow dirt and gravel roads around Sperryville.
As a former volunteer firefighter, he knows the horror of pulling bodies out of the twisted wreckage of cars that failed to negotiate some of those same country roads. “I would pick up children butchered in accidents,” he said grimly. “It would really get to me. I still think about it (years later).”
He believes that if people would put the needs of the county ahead of their own personal wants, they would recognize how important safety is. “Ten to 15 years ago, people were in favor” of paving the secondary roads. “There would have been no fight over Rt. 621, Yancey Road. Recent purchasers have turned the situation around.”
Proposed VDOT paving and widening of Yancey Road in Stonewall-Hawthome District is opposed by many residents of that district. The construction project would destroy trees, including a large sycamore, on Lane Industries property. Lane Industries has already agreed to donate the land to VDOT for the road improvement.
At Monday’s meeting of the board of supervisors, residents of Route 621 asked for that road to be put back on the supervisors agenda
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