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By MARY BETH MARTIN Rappahannock News Staff Writer

A proposal seeking federal and state funding to finance improvements on Sperryville’s Main Street, a footbridge and a hiking-biking trail will be presented to the Board of Supervisors at 7 p.m. on Monday night. The board’s support is critical.

“I am pleased with the proposal,” committee member Bayard Catron said. “It is almost as if the program were meant for us because it fit the criteria so well.”

The project is in two phases, Catron said, with the Main Street and village composing the first part and the hiking-biking trail constituting the second part. The trail, he said, is planned tcy connect the west end of Sperryville to the historic district.

Plans for phase one include removing the asphalt from Main Street,

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