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way but can’t renovate a bam.
Phillip Terrell
Castleton
What has happened to
democracy? In the Commonwealth of Virginia, the center of colonial democracy, and of all places, in a town called Washington, Va., what happened to majority rule? What would the founding fathers say, looking at the dawn of a new millennium in America, if they could witness what has been happening in Castleton?
A rich landowner with strong European connections is getting what he wants in spite of the protests of a large number or ordinary citizens in the neighborhood, and the local government officials seem to be helplessly shrugging their shoulders, saying, “There is nothing we can do to stop it.”
This is the picture in Castleton. A quiet, very rural
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