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Landowners will be getting notices of their new assessments next week, and overall they will show an increase of nearly 48 percent since the 1988 assessment. The total value of taxable land and buildings in Rappahannock according to the new assessment is almost $750 million. The current assessment is just under $508 million.

Bob Darby, the Republican candidate for the House of Delegates, 31st District, joined other Virginia Republican candidates at the White House on Friday, Sept. 27 for a conference on America 2000, which is President Bush’s long-term strategy to achieve educational excellence by the year 2000. In a photo Mr. Darby was also pictured with President Bush.

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