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I have read with interest the
comments and concerns of the opponents of the cell towers proposed and approved in Rappahannock County. The vistas these relative newcomers enjoy were borne on the backs of local businesses and agriculture.
Local businesses and agriculture are quickly disappearing as a way of life in Rappahannock. Tburism, restaurants, B&B’s and galleries have replaced local businesses, country stores, cattle, sheep, pigs and orchards. We were once many but now we are few.
Gone from the county, both partially and entirely are the indigenous families of Atkins, Aylors, Browns, Burkes, Beahms, Clarks, Clanagans, Cannons, Critzers, Dodsons, Deals, Dennis’, DeBerghs, Easthams, Estes, Fletchers, Fryes, Freemans, Fosters, Falls, Giles, Gatewoods, Grigsbys, Hitts, Jenkins, Jordans, Jones, Kilbys, Keysers, Lees, Leakes, Lathams, Nicholsons, Massies,
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