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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Writer
A look at the headlines of a small community newspaper over a year's period is a look into the nature of that community itself. Gosh! What a boring place we live in, thank goodness.
Boring, at least, in terms of headline-evoking events. No rash of violent crimes, no large-scale despoiling of the environment by unscrupulous petrochemical behemoths, no dipping into County coffers by a bespectacled granny, no twenty-mile gridlock on US 211 due to road construction, no political hacks \vith sable-draped girlfriends driving silver Jaguar convertibles—not much, in fact, to bring broad-scale distress to residents.
Wha. happened in the past year to bring the blood to a boil, to raise the levels of social consciousness, or to heighten fear to alpine levels? Well, not too much.
There was the Shenandoah Complex Fire", of course, and the fact that Rappahannock was, for a time, the locale with the largest woodland fire in the United States. There was associated with the fire broad praise1 for local efforts, and some criticism of SNP's handling of the event.
We watched the progress of Sprint PCS cell tower application as it passed into the County process. We saw significant and very vocal opposition to an initial proposal that struck at the heart of Rappahannock s glorious landscapes, and we saw that the voices opposed did work—at least to the point that Sprint PGS withdrew their application and will resubmit something more palatable, we hope, to the community.
We were disgusted at the mindless violence and anger reflected in the vandalism at Montpelier. We offered our aid as a community for the clean-up and restoration of this most unique and beautiful edifice, and we still wonder who might have perpetrated such a needless act.
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