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By Galen C. McBride I
Rappahannock News Staff Writer >
In an interview last Friday, officials of the; U.S. Postal Service confirmed that a new Amissville Post Office is still being actively pur-1 sued. “Unfortunately,” said Richard S.; Thompson, USPS Northern Virginia District; Manager of Administrative Services, “our first choice location has fallen through, but we madei a commitment to the community to explore! every possibility. We are going out to look at' another property in the village area.”
USPS Real Estate Specialist Clayton Redmond confirmed that “we are still working on finding a site.” When asked about reports' that developer Jim Epstein might be negotiating a post office for his planned neo-traditional yil-; lage at the intersection of U.S. 211 and Route; 229, Redmond firmly stated, “We are not doing' anything on Clevenger’s Comer.”
Both USPS representatives expressed their', interest in resolving the real estate issues quick*; ly so that construction of the new post office can1 get underway. More information should be avail-* able within the next few weeks. !
Rumors circulated earlier this year that the’ USPS was considering locating a regional post office at Clevenger’s Comer. At that time a group of concerned citizens in the Amissville area contacted the USPS to see if a property could be found in Amissville that would be acceptable to the USPS. At that time there were six properties under consideration but as of last month only one of the original six landowners was still negotiating with the USPS. The others had either changed their mind or failed to come to a satisfactory agreement with the postal service.
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