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Steve Leake, a native of Sperryville, showed his apprehension with the committee’s plans.
“I have a lot of real concerns about the whole situation. I don’t want to see it (Sperryville) changed. He said he represented a high percentage of the old Sperryville natives who “thought that next someone would tell me what color to paint my house.”
Comments followed that they didn’t want Sperryville to be like the Town of Washington.
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