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Preservation Committee, led by Emiel Smet, sent protest letters to Postmaster General Marvin Runyon and Congressman Frank Wolfe, saying, in part, that the “relocation would have a devastating effect on the Village of Amissville and th^ residents who patronize the present location. Moving the Post Office would destroy the character and identity of the Village.”
According to committee member Bob Lindquist, the group collected 196 signatures op petitions opposing the USPS action which they presented to *the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors Monday night.
Help is also being enliatffi||p from Delegate Jay^Katzen NhmK Senator John Warner.
Committee members Victoria^! and Steve Miller live in one of thq original houses built in the village and recently moved their international marketing business, INDEF Services, into their home.
Victoria Miller said, “We know we need a new post office — a new buijding, a bigger one, because it is not meeting everyone’s needs,” but ’ with more and. more businesses locating in Amissville, the need for * a post office there is increasing, not decreasing. Her husband Steve, an historian, sees the situation from another perspective. “The post office has been here since 1810. If you lose your sense of history, you’re really jeopardizing your heritage. If you move the post office, what do you do to the identity of the village?”
Culpeper County approved the Epstein partnership’s request to rezone part of the 125 acre Clevenger’s Corner property to , Village Cepter, Commercial (VCC). John E.- j. Egertson, Planning Director for Culpeper County said, of the plans for the post offjce, last week, “We don’t
j See AMISSVILLE, Page 3
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