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Yet last summer community support quickly raised over $25,000 for a football program, and we were assured by all involved that football would be a “money maker” for the athletics department, not a financial drain. It wouldn’t cost us a cent, and it would actually contribute funds to other sports activities.

So I, like a lot of other people, just shrugged my shoulders, and let it go at that.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I read in last week’s Rappahannock News that among new spending items that I and every other taxpayer are being asked to shell out even more to fund our schools, is a request from Paul Gall to fund $10,500 for football coaching.

Less than nine months after they promised that football would be revenue neutral, if not revenue positive,

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